Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Beard, James

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

Barrymore, John

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

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

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

Twain, Mark

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

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

Orbach, Susie

10.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

11.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

12.

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

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Proverb, Catalan

15.

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

16.

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

Morley, Christopher

17.

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

Connolly, Cyril

18.

There is only one thing harder than looking for a dewdrop in the dew, and that is fishing for a clam in the clam chowder.

Proverb, New England

19.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

20.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

21.

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

Euripides

22.

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

Saadi

23.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

24.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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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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One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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.

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

Woolf, Virginia

31.

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

Orwell, George

32.

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

Hubbard, Kin

33.

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

Proverb, English

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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

35.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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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

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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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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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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.

40.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

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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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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

44.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

45.

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

Charles II

46.

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

Collier, William

48.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

49.

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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A good meal ought to begin with hunger.