Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Connolly, Cyril

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Bible

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

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

Santayana, George

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 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

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

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Gilbert, W. S.

10.

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

11.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

12.

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

Beard, James

13.

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

Twain, Mark

14.

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

Hubbard, Kin

15.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

16.

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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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

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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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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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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 food here is so tasteless you could eat a meal of it and belch and it wouldn't remind you of anything.

Foxx, Redd

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

Proverb, French

23.

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

24.

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

Lancaster, Burt

25.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

26.

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

Saadi

27.

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

Euripides

28.

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

29.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

30.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

32.

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

Woolf, Virginia

33.

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

Proverb, English

34.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

35.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

36.

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

Barrymore, John

37.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

38.

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

39.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

40.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

41.

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

Miller, Henry

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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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To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Morley, Christopher

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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

47.

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

Collier, William

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

Charles II