Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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.

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Gilbert, W. S.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Euripides

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

Orwell, George

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

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

Saadi

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

Hubbard, Kin

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

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

10.

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''

11.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

12.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

13.

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

Hitopadesa

14.

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

15.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

16.

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.

17.

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

Santayana, George

18.

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

Miller, Henry

19.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

20.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

21.

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

Connolly, Cyril

22.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

23.

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

24.

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

25.

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

Morley, Christopher

26.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

27.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

28.

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

29.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

30.

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

Twain, Mark

31.

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

32.

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

Kurnitz, Harry

33.

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

Lancaster, Burt

34.

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

35.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

36.

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

Proverb, Catalan

37.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

38.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

39.

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

Collier, William

40.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

44.

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

Proverb, English

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

50.

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