Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

Best Quotes about Food and eating

Although there is a great deal of controversy among scientists about the effects of ingested food on the brain, no one denies that you can change your cognition and mood by what you eat.

Winter, Arthur

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

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Orwell, George

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

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

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

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

Socrates

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My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Morley, Christopher

15.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Beard, James

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I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead -- not sick, not wounded -- dead.

Allen, Woody

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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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A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.

Byron, Lord

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The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Lancaster, Burt

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Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war?

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Maximus, Tyrius

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

Twain, Mark

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

Euripides

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

Hackett, Buddy

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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

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

Proverb, French

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We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

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

Kurnitz, Harry

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One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

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Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Santayana, George

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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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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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Yogi ordered a pizza. The waitress asked How many pieces do you want your pie cut? Yogi responded, Four. I don't think I could eat eight.

Berra, Yogi

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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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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

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Bryson, Bill

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

Orbach, Susie