Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Charles II

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Maximus, Tyrius

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

Butler, Samuel

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

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

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

Beard, James

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

Santayana, George

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

10.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

11.

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

Twain, Mark

12.

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

13.

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''

14.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

15.

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

16.

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

17.

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

18.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

19.

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

Euripides

20.

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

Miller, Henry

21.

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

22.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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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

24.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

25.

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

26.

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

Cato The Elder

28.

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

Proverb, Turkish

29.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

30.

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

Saadi

31.

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

32.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

33.

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

Woolf, Virginia

34.

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

Hackett, Buddy

35.

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

Socrates

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

Orwell, George

39.

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

40.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

42.

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

43.

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

Bible

44.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

45.

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

Proverb, English

46.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

47.

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

Charles II

48.

Appetite comes with eating; the more one has, the more one would have.

Proverb, French

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

Morley, Christopher