Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Allen, Woody

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

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

Bible

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

Orwell, George

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

Proverb, Catalan

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

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

Orbach, Susie

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

10.

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

11.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

12.

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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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.

15.

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

Collier, William

16.

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

Charles II

17.

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

18.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

19.

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 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

21.

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

22.

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

Hackett, Buddy

23.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

24.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

25.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

26.

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

Proverb, Turkish

27.

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

Hubbard, Kin

28.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

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

30.

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

Barrymore, John

31.

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

32.

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

Connolly, Cyril

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That food has always been, and will continue to be, the basis for one of our greater snobbism does not explain the fact that the attitude toward the food choice of others is becoming more and more heatedly exclusive until it may well turn into one of those forms of bigotry against which gallant little committees are constantly planning campaigns in the cause of justice and decency.

Skinner, Cornelia Otis

34.

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

Woolf, Virginia

35.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

36.

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

Santayana, George

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

Euripides

38.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

39.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

40.

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.

41.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

42.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

43.

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