Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Charles II

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

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.

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

Proverb, English

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

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Orbach, Susie

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

10.

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

11.

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

Vries, Peter De

12.

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

13.

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

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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.

15.

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

Woolf, Virginia

16.

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

Connolly, Cyril

17.

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

18.

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

19.

Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we may diet.

Kurnitz, Harry

20.

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

21.

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

Lancaster, Burt

22.

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

Beard, James

23.

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

24.

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

Twain, Mark

25.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

26.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

28.

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

Saadi

29.

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

Santayana, George

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Orwell, George

33.

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

Allen, Woody

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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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

36.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

37.

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

Butler, Samuel

38.

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

39.

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

Hubbard, Kin

40.

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

41.

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

Socrates

42.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

43.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

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.

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

46.

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

Lappe, Frances Moore

47.

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

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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''

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

Proverb, French

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

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