Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

Best Quotes about Food and eating

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Santayana, George

There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison.

Goodman, Paul

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

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

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

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Orbach, Susie

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.

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

Lancaster, Burt

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The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth.

Lappe, Frances Moore

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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

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Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

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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

15.

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

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

Euripides

17.

The food here is so tasteless you could eat a meal of it and belch and it wouldn't remind you of anything.

Foxx, Redd

18.

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

Proverb, English

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A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk's leap toward immortality.

Fadiman, Clifton

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Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and the reason they don't get fat is that they maintain a profligate level of calorie expenditure. The very same people whose evenings begin with melted goats cheese... get up at dawn to run, break for a mid-morning aerobics class, and watch the evening news while racing on a stationary bicycle.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Most of us are either too think to enjoy eating, or too fat to enjoy walking.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Maximus, Tyrius

24.

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

Hackett, Buddy

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

Bible

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

Socrates

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Baudrillard, Jean

28.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

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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

30.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

31.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

32.

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

Collier, William

33.

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

Saadi

34.

If you're going to America, bring your own food.

Lebowitz, Fran

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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.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

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Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

41.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

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The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.