Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Dangerfield, Rodney

Best Quotes about Food and eating

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

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

Collier, William

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

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.

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

Barrymore, John

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.

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

12.

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

Hubbard, Kin

13.

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

Allen, Woody

14.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

15.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

16.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

17.

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

Socrates

18.

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

Charles II

19.

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

Beard, James

20.

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

21.

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

Saadi

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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

23.

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

Lancaster, Burt

24.

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

25.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

26.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

27.

Roast Beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. Seated at Life's Dining Table, with the menu of Morals before you, your eye wanders a bit over the entr?es, the hors d'oeuvres, and the things ? la though you know that Roast Beef, medium, is safe and sane, and sure.

Ferber, Edna

28.

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

29.

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

Cato The Elder

30.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

31.

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

Proverb, French

32.

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

Orbach, Susie

33.

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

Twain, Mark

34.

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

35.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

36.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

37.

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

Lappe, Frances Moore

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Proverb, English

41.

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

Hackett, Buddy

42.

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

43.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

44.

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''

45.

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

46.

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

Proverb, Catalan

47.

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

Hitopadesa

48.

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

49.

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

Bible

50.

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