Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Proverb, Turkish

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

Lebowitz, Fran

A store of grain, Oh king is the best of treasures. A gem put in your mouth will not support life.

Hitopadesa

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Butler, Samuel

Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we may diet.

Kurnitz, Harry

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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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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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Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

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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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Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Connolly, Cyril

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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 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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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

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To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Beard, James

21.

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

Miller, Henry

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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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To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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

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

Socrates

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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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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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He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Charles II

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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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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We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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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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A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

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

Saadi

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

Cato The Elder

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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.