Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Eating

The spirit cannot endure the body when overfed, but, if underfed, the body cannot endure the spirit.
Francis de Sales (1567–1622) French Catholic Saint

A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.
W. H. Auden (1907–73) British-born American Poet, Dramatist

If it weren’t for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of the television, we’d still be eating frozen radio dinners.
Johnny Carson (1925–2005) American Comedian

And in that day did the Lord God of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: And behold joy and ladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we shall die.
The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith

For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English Poet, Literary Critic, Philosopher

Acorns were good till bread was found.
Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English Philosopher

Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body more than raiment?
The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith

He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.
Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher

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.
Gloria Steinem (b.1934) American Feminist, Journalist, Social Activist, Political Activist

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
Channing Pollock (1880–1946) American Playwright, Critic

Gluttony kills more than the sword.
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh Anglican Poet, Orator, Clergyman

The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish Novelist

You can say this for ready-mixes – the next generation isn’t going to have any trouble making pies exactly like mother used to make.
Earl Wilson (1907–87) American Broadway Gossip Columnist

A philosopher is a person who doesn’t care which side his bread is buttered on; he knows he eats both sides anyway.
Joyce Brothers (1927–2013) American Psychologist, Advice Columnist

A three-year-old gave this reaction to her Christmas dinner: “I don’t like the turkey, but I like the bread he ate.”
Indian Proverb

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.
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1913) American Short-story Writer, Journalist

He pares his apple that will cleanly feed.
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh Anglican Poet, Orator, Clergyman

Don’t forget that the flavors of wine and cheese depend upon the types of infecting microrganisms
Martin H. Fischer

Square meals often make round people.
E. Joseph Cossman

Soup is liquid comfort
Unknown

And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness: And the children of Israel said unto hem, Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; or ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish Playwright

One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.
Luciano Pavarotti (1935–2007) Italian Operatic Tenor

The breakfast slimes, angel food cake, doughnuts and coffee, white bread and gravy cannot build an enduring nation.
Martin H. Fischer

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
William Blake (1757–1827) English Poet, Painter, Printmaker

When the Sultan Shah-Zaman Goes to the city Ispahan, Even before he gets so far As the place where the clustered palm-trees are, At the last of he thirty palace-gates The pet of the harem, Rose-in-Bloom, Orders a feast in his favorite room—Glittering square of colored ice, Sweetened ith syrup, tinctured with spice, Creams, and cordials, and sugared dates, Syrian apples, Othmanee quinces, Limes and citrons and apricots,
And wines that are known to Eastern princes.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907) American Writer, Poet, Critic, Editor

A nickel’s worth of goulash beats a five dollar can of vitamines.
Martin H. Fischer

It’s bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children’s health than the pediatrician.
Meryl Streep (b.1949) American Actor

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

One should eat to live, not live to eat.
Moliere (1622–73) French Playwright

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