Top 59 Eating Quotes

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Eating is an essential part of life. With that in mind, check out the top 59 eating quotes.

#59 – 50. Eating Quotes

59. Clogged with yesterday’s excess, the body drags the mind down with it. – Horace

58. To avoid sickness eat less; to prolong life worry less.  – Chu Hui Weng

57. Edible, adj.: 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

56. The path to obesity is so tasty. – John Hubbard

55. No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut. – Channing Pollock

54. There is no sincerer love than the love of food. – George Bernard Shaw

53. The most of what a glutton eats goes to create a desire for more. – James Lendall Basford

52. Food is symbolic of love when words are inadequate. – Alan D. Wolfelt

51. One cannot think well, love well and sleep well if one has not dined well. – Virginia Woolf

50. If you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat with him – the people who give you their food give you their heart. – Cesar Chavez

#49 – 40. Eating Quotes

49. All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast. – John Gunther

48. There is small danger of being starved in our land of plenty; but the danger of being stuffed is imminent. – Sarah Josepha Hale

47. In ‘The Republic’ he [Plato] states that the enjoyment of food is not a true pleasure because the purpose of eating is to relieve pain — hunger. – Mark Kurlansky

46. Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great. – Henry IV of France

45. Never eat more than you can lift. – Miss Piggy

44. Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are. – Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

43. Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table. – Honore de Balzac

42. The belly rules the mind. – Spanish proverb

41. Thou shouldst eat to live, not live to eat. – Cicero

40. You don’t need a silver fork to eat good food. – Paul Prudhomme

#39 – 30. Eating Quotes

39. There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. – Mahatma Gandhi

38. Gluttony is the parent of disease. – Proverbs by William Hardcastle Browne

37. People who love to eat are always the best people. – Julia Child

36. Animals feed; man eats; only a man of wit knows how to eat. – Jean Anthelme

35. First we eat, then we do everything else. – M.F.K. Fisher

34. Eat little, sleep sound. – Iranian proverb

33. The chief pleasure in eating does not consist in costly seasoning, or exquisite flavor, but in yourself. – Horace

32. I eat merely to put food out of my mind. – N.F. Simpson

31. Dyspepsia is the remorse of a guilty stomach. – A. Kerr

30. If you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat with him…the people who give you their food give you their heart. – Cesar Chavez

#29 – 20. Eating Quotes

29. Popcorn for breakfast! Why not? It’s a grain. It’s like, like, grits, but with high self-esteem. – James Patterson

28. Great food is like great sex. The more you have the more you want. – Gael Greene

27. Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first. – Josh Billings

26. The spirit cannot endure the body when overfed, but, if underfed, the body cannot endure the spirit. – St Frances de Sales

25. The scientific truth may be put quite briefly; eat moderately, having an ordinary mixed diet, and don’t worry.  – Robert Hutchison

24. The secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. – Mark Twain

23. Food is like sex: When you abstain, even the worst stuff begins to look good. – Beth McCollister

22. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. – J.R.R. Tolkien

21. Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity. – Voltaire

20. Take time enough for your meals, and eat them in company whenever you can. There is no need for hurry in life—least of all when we are eating. – Edward Everett Hale

#19 – 10. Eating Quotes

19. People want honest, flavourful food, not some show-off meal that takes days to prepare. – Ted Allen

18. You can’t just eat good food. You’ve got to talk about it too. And you’ve got to talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food. – Kurt Vonnegut

17. Laughter is brightest in the place where the food is. – Irish Proverb

16. We are all dietetic sinners; only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us; the balance goes to waste and loss of energy. – William Osler

15. Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us. – Peter De Vries

14. We never repent of having eaten too little. – Thomas Jefferson

13. Preserve and treat food as you would your body, remembering that in time food will be your body. – B.W. Richardson

12. An empty belly is the best cook. – Estonian proverb

11. Everything you see I owe to spaghetti. – Sophia Loren

10. Food is our common ground, a universal experience. – James Beard

#9 – 1. Eating Quotes

9. Food is an important part of a balanced diet. – Fran Lebowitz

8. After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relatives. – Oscar Wilde

7. Anybody who believes that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach flunked geography. – Robert Byrne

6. They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing. – William Shakespeare

5. I’ve long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we’re talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime associates, food, for me, has always been an adventure. – Anthony Bourdain

4. As a child my family’s menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it. – Buddy Hackett

3. Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious. – Ruth Reichl

2. Don’t dig your grave with your own knife and fork. – English Proverb

1. 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

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