Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Euripides

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

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

Santayana, George

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

Maximus, Tyrius

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

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

Saadi

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Lancaster, Burt

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

Miller, Henry

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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.

13.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

14.

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

Vries, Peter De

15.

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

16.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

17.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

18.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

19.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

23.

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

24.

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

Lappe, Frances Moore

25.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

26.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

27.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

28.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

29.

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

30.

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

31.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

32.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

33.

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

Proverb, Turkish

34.

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

Twain, Mark

35.

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

Barrymore, John

36.

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

37.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

38.

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

39.

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

Proverb, French

40.

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

41.

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

Morley, Christopher

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.

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

Bible

44.

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

Socrates

45.

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

Proverb, Catalan

46.

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

Orwell, George

47.

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

Hubbard, Kin

48.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

49.

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.

50.

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.