Eating quotes
495 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"I already am eating from the trash can all the time. The name of this trash can is ideology. The material force of ideology makes me not see what I am effectively eating."
"I also became a vegetarian when I was 14 because I realized eating animals was cruel."
"While eating your appetizer, don't be concerned with dessert."
"We are eating too much of the wrong thing, and not enough of the right thing"
"From the described experiment it is clear that the mere act of eating, the food even not reaching the stomach, determines the stimulation of the gastric glands."
Explore further
Browse quotes that often appear alongside eating — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"Food is for eating, and good food is to be enjoyed... I think food is, actually, very beautiful in itself."
"Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe."
"Playing without the fundamentals is like eating without a knife and fork. You make a mess."
"Eating is one of my favorite parts of the day"
"The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine."
"Eating outdoors makes for good health and long life and good temper, everyone knows that."
"The proof of the pudding is the eating."
"For me a day without training is like a day without eating."
"Cereal eating is almost a marker for a healthy lifestyle. It sets you up for the day, so you don't overeat."
"Drinking wine is just a part of life, like eating food."
"A lot of things look cooler in slow motion. Eating isn't one of them."
"Come, my pretender, my fritter, my bubbler, my chicken biddy! Oh succulent one, it is but one turn in the road and I would be a cannibal!"
"You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher."
"The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach."
"Eating is the secret to good cooking."
"Good food and good eating are about risk."
"Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but backrout quite the wits."
"Though their life was modest, they believed in eating well."
"What say you to a piece of beef and mustard?"
"They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives."
