Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Cato The Elder

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Barrymore, John

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

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

Proverb, Turkish

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

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

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Orbach, Susie

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

Vries, Peter De

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

Woolf, Virginia

10.

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

Lancaster, Burt

11.

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.

12.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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

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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

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

Proverb, Hebrew

17.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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

Euripides

19.

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

21.

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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We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

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We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

25.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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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

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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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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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He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Butler, Samuel

32.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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

34.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Twain, Mark

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

Maximus, Tyrius

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

Cato The Elder

38.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

39.

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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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

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Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

42.

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

Hackett, Buddy

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

Collier, William

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