Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

Best Quotes about Food and eating

For its merit I will knight it, and then it will be Sir-Loin.

Charles II

The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.

Connolly, Cyril

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.

Byron, Lord

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

Vries, Peter De

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

Hackett, Buddy

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

Orbach, Susie

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

Euripides

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

He who cannot eat horsemeat need not do so. Let him eat pork. But he who cannot eat pork, let him eat horsemeat. It's simply a question of taste.

Khrushchev, Nikita

10.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

11.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

12.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

13.

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

14.

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

Woolf, Virginia

15.

It is the mark of a mean, vulgar and ignoble spirit to dwell on the thought of food before meal times or worse to dwell on it afterwards, to discuss it and wallow in the remembered pleasures of every mouthful. Those whose minds dwell before dinner on the spit, and after on the dishes, are fit only to be scullions.

Francis De Sales, St.

16.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

17.

I told my doctor I get very tired when I go on a diet, so he gave me pep pills. Know what happened? I ate faster.

Lewis, Joe E.

18.

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

Morley, Christopher

19.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

20.

It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.

Cato The Elder

21.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

22.

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

23.

It's better that it should make you sick than that you don't eat it at all.

Proverb, Catalan

24.

I found there was only one way to look thin, hang out with fat people.

Dangerfield, Rodney

25.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

26.

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

27.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

28.

The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.

Butler, Samuel

29.

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

30.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

32.

Don't dig your grave with your knife and fork.

Proverb, English

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Put a knife to thy throat, if you're a man given to appetite.

Bible

36.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

37.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

38.

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

Collier, William

39.

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

Saadi

40.

I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning.

Barrymore, John

41.

Although there is a great deal of controversy among scientists about the effects of ingested food on the brain, no one denies that you can change your cognition and mood by what you eat.

Winter, Arthur

42.

A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart, who looks at her watch.

Beard, James

43.

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.

44.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

45.

I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. I am President of the United States, and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.

Bush, George

46.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

47.

Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think about food.

Pilgrim, Peace

48.

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

Twain, Mark

49.

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

50.

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

Lappe, Frances Moore