Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Food and eating

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Beard, James

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

Santayana, George

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

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Saadi

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

Kurnitz, Harry

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

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

10.

Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like -- and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres.

Munro, Hector Hugh

11.

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

Proverb, English

12.

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

13.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

14.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

15.

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

Orbach, Susie

16.

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

Hackett, Buddy

17.

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

Charles II

18.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

19.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

20.

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

Cato The Elder

21.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

22.

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

23.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

24.

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

Bible

25.

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''

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

Orwell, George

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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

28.

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

29.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

30.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

31.

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

Proverb, Catalan

32.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

33.

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

34.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

35.

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

36.

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

37.

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

Collier, William

38.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

39.

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

Connolly, Cyril

40.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

41.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

42.

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

43.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

44.

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

Allen, Woody

45.

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

Lappe, Frances Moore

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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.

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

Euripides

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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

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One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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