Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

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

Orbach, Susie

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

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.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Woolf, Virginia

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Collier, William

10.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

11.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

12.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

14.

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

15.

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

16.

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

Vries, Peter De

17.

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

18.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

19.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

20.

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

Lappe, Frances Moore

21.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

22.

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

Connolly, Cyril

23.

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

24.

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

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.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

27.

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

Saadi

28.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

29.

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

Cato The Elder

30.

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

Twain, Mark

31.

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

Proverb, French

32.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

33.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

34.

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

35.

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

Euripides

36.

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

Proverb, English

37.

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

Socrates

38.

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

Santayana, George

39.

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

40.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

41.

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

Charles II

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

46.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

47.

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

Orwell, George

48.

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

Beard, James

49.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

50.

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