Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Woolf, Virginia

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

Proverb, Catalan

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

Collier, William

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

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

Hackett, Buddy

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Maximus, Tyrius

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

Socrates

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Saadi

13.

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

Orwell, George

14.

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

Bible

15.

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''

16.

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

Euripides

17.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

18.

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

19.

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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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

21.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

22.

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

Woolf, Virginia

23.

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

Connolly, Cyril

24.

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

25.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

26.

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

Charles II

27.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

28.

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

29.

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

Santayana, George

30.

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

Barrymore, John

31.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

32.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

33.

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

34.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

35.

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

Proverb, French

36.

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.

37.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

38.

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

39.

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

40.

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

Miller, Henry

41.

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

42.

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

Cato The Elder

43.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

44.

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

45.

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

Hubbard, Kin

46.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

48.

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

49.

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

Proverb, Turkish

50.

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

Lancaster, Burt