Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

Best Quotes about Food and eating

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Lancaster, Burt

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Barrymore, John

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

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

Hackett, Buddy

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

Euripides

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

10.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

11.

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

12.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

13.

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

Morley, Christopher

14.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

15.

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

Proverb, English

16.

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.

17.

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

Miller, Henry

18.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

19.

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

20.

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

Proverb, French

21.

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

22.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

23.

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

Orbach, Susie

24.

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

Allen, Woody

25.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Collier, William

29.

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

Bible

30.

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

Saadi

31.

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

Woolf, Virginia

32.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

33.

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

Beard, James

34.

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

35.

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

Butler, Samuel

36.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

37.

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

Hitopadesa

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.

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.

40.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

41.

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

Kurnitz, Harry

42.

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

43.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

44.

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

45.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

46.

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

47.

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

48.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

49.

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

50.

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