Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Beard, James

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Bible

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

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

Gilbert, W. S.

My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

10.

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

Orwell, George

11.

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

Collier, William

12.

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

13.

Want to learn to eat a lot? Here it is: Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.

Robbins, Anthony

14.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

15.

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

Morley, Christopher

16.

Worthless people love only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

Socrates

17.

If you're going to America, bring your own food.

Lebowitz, Fran

18.

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''

19.

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

Lappe, Frances Moore

20.

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead -- not sick, not wounded -- dead.

Allen, Woody

21.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

22.

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

Saadi

23.

You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread.

Miller, Henry

24.

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

Charles II

25.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

26.

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

27.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

28.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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.

32.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

33.

A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.

Hubbard, Kin

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Twain, Mark

37.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

38.

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

Vries, Peter De

39.

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

40.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

41.

It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it. There are some things in every country that you must be born to endure; and another hundred years of general satisfaction with Americans and America could not reconcile this expatriate to cranberry sauce, peanut butter, and drum majorettes.

Cooke, Alistair

42.

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

Orbach, Susie

43.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

44.

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

45.

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.

46.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

47.

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

48.

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

Proverb, French

49.

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

50.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van