Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart, who looks at her watch.

- Beard, James

Best Quotes about Food and eating

The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.

Butler, Samuel

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

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.

Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we may diet.

Kurnitz, Harry

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

Hackett, Buddy

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

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

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

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

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

Orwell, George

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No man is lonely while eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.

Morley, Christopher

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

Euripides

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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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

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

Proverb, Catalan

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Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

19.

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

Proverb, English

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

Miller, Henry

21.

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

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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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

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A store of grain, Oh king is the best of treasures. A gem put in your mouth will not support life.

Hitopadesa

27.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

28.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

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Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

30.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Barrymore, John

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Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

33.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

34.

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

Orbach, Susie

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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.

Steinem, Gloria

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One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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When one has tasted it [Watermelon] he knows what the angels eat.

Twain, Mark

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

Proverb, French

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

Collier, William

41.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

42.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

43.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

44.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

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

Bible

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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''

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He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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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