Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Proverb, Hebrew

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

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

Charles II

The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.

Butler, Samuel

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

Proverb, French

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

Gilbert, W. S.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

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

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

10.

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

Hitopadesa

11.

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.

12.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

13.

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

Socrates

15.

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

Euripides

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

19.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

20.

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

21.

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

Twain, Mark

22.

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

Vries, Peter De

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

27.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

28.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

29.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

30.

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

Beard, James

31.

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

32.

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''

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

35.

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

Orbach, Susie

36.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

37.

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

38.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

39.

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

Proverb, English

40.

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

41.

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

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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

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.

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

Lancaster, Burt

45.

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

46.

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

Allen, Woody

47.

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

Orwell, George

48.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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