Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Hackett, Buddy

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Morley, Christopher

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Catalan

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

Cato The Elder

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

Lancaster, Burt

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

10.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

11.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

12.

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

Connolly, Cyril

13.

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.

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.

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

Hackett, Buddy

16.

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

17.

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

18.

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

Proverb, Turkish

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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.

22.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

26.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

27.

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

Allen, Woody

28.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

29.

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

Orwell, George

30.

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

Bible

31.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

32.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

33.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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.

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.

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

37.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Lappe, Frances Moore

42.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

43.

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

44.

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

Collier, William

45.

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

Woolf, Virginia

46.

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

47.

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

Proverb, French

48.

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

49.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

50.

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph