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

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

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

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

Butler, Samuel

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Orbach, Susie

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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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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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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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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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We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

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He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

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A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

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You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread.

Miller, Henry

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

Orwell, George

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One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think about food.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

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We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

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

Barrymore, John

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Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

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

Saadi

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

Euripides

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

Lancaster, Burt

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

Socrates

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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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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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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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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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Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

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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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Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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