Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

Taking food alone tends to make one hard and coarse. Those accustomed to it must lead a Spartan life if they are not to go downhill. Hermits have observed, if for only this reason, a frugal diet. For it is only in company that eating is done justice; food must be divided and distributed if it is to be well received.

- Benjamin, Walter

Best Quotes about Food and eating

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

Edible. Good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

Bierce, Ambrose

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

Orwell, George

A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk's leap toward immortality.

Fadiman, Clifton

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.

Euripides

When one has tasted it [Watermelon] he knows what the angels eat.

Twain, Mark

10.

Sadder than destitution, sadder than a beggar is the man who eats alone in public. Nothing more contradicts the laws of man or beast, for animals always do each other the honor of sharing or disputing each other's food.

Baudrillard, Jean

11.

Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities and the fountain of all our diseases. As fire extinguished by an excess of fuel, so is the natural health of the body destroyed by an intemperate diet.

Burton

12.

For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.

Steinem, Gloria

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Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and the reason they don't get fat is that they maintain a profligate level of calorie expenditure. The very same people whose evenings begin with melted goats cheese... get up at dawn to run, break for a mid-morning aerobics class, and watch the evening news while racing on a stationary bicycle.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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It ain't what you eat, but the way how you chew it.

Mcclinton, Delbert

15.

There is only one thing harder than looking for a dewdrop in the dew, and that is fishing for a clam in the clam chowder.

Proverb, New England

16.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

17.

Appetite comes with eating; the more one has, the more one would have.

Proverb, French

18.

Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the endless quest for new taste sensations. Now they are a little like those desperate junkies who have tried every known drug and are finally reduced to mainlining toilet bowl cleanser in an effort to get still higher.

Bryson, Bill

19.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

Woolf, Virginia

20.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

21.

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

22.

It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.

Gilbert, W. S.

23.

We know that every woman wants to be thin. Our images of womanhood are almost synonymous with thinness.

Orbach, Susie

24.

A store of grain, Oh king is the best of treasures. A gem put in your mouth will not support life.

Hitopadesa

25.

Yogi ordered a pizza. The waitress asked How many pieces do you want your pie cut? Yogi responded, Four. I don't think I could eat eight.

Berra, Yogi

26.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

27.

There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.

Santayana, George

28.

As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it, or leave it.

Hackett, Buddy

29.

No man is lonely while eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.

Morley, Christopher

30.

The food here is so tasteless you could eat a meal of it and belch and it wouldn't remind you of anything.

Foxx, Redd

31.

The soup is never hot enough if the waiter can keep his thumb in it.

Collier, William

32.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

33.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

34.

I judge a restaurant by the bread and by the coffee.

Lancaster, Burt

35.

That food has always been, and will continue to be, the basis for one of our greater snobbism does not explain the fact that the attitude toward the food choice of others is becoming more and more heatedly exclusive until it may well turn into one of those forms of bigotry against which gallant little committees are constantly planning campaigns in the cause of justice and decency.

Skinner, Cornelia Otis

36.

He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.

Saadi

37.

Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war?

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

38.

The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth.

Lappe, Frances Moore

39.

Most of us are either too think to enjoy eating, or too fat to enjoy walking.

Howe, Edgar Watson

40.

Choose rather to punish your appetites than be punished by them.

Maximus, Tyrius

41.

Avoid fresh meats, which angry up the blood. If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts. Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move. Go very light in the vices such as carrying on in society. The social ramble ain't restful. Don't look back. Someone might be gaining on you.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

42.

There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison.

Goodman, Paul

43.

He that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.

Proverb, Hebrew

44.

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.

Hobbes, Thomas

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Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like -- and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres.

Munro, Hector Hugh

46.

More die in the United States from too much food that from too little.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Benjamin, Walter

48.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

49.

Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.

Schiaparelli, Elsa

50.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas