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

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.

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

Orwell, 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

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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

Barrymore, John

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

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

10.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

11.

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

Hubbard, Kin

12.

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

Kurnitz, Harry

13.

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

14.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

15.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

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

Socrates

17.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

18.

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

Collier, William

19.

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

20.

The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.

Connolly, Cyril

21.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

22.

For its merit I will knight it, and then it will be Sir-Loin.

Charles II

23.

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

24.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

25.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

26.

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

27.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

28.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

29.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

30.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

31.

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

32.

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''

33.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Butler, Samuel

37.

It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.

Cato The Elder

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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.

39.

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

40.

Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love.

Proverb, Turkish

41.

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

42.

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

43.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Bryson, Bill

45.

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

Lancaster, Burt

46.

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

Morley, Christopher

47.

Taking food alone tends to make one hard and coarse. Those accustomed to it must lead a Spartan life if they are not to go downhill. Hermits have observed, if for only this reason, a frugal diet. For it is only in company that eating is done justice; food must be divided and distributed if it is to be well received.

Benjamin, Walter

48.

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

Orbach, Susie

49.

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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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