Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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.

Best Quotes about Food and eating

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

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

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

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.

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

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

Orwell, George

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

10.

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

Saadi

11.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

12.

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

Proverb, French

13.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

14.

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

15.

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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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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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

18.

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

Charles II

19.

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

Vries, Peter De

20.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

21.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

Hackett, Buddy

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

Connolly, Cyril

24.

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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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

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

Barrymore, John

28.

Francis De Sales, St.

29.

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

Beard, James

30.

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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To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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It's better that it should make you sick than that you don't eat it at all.

Proverb, Catalan

34.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

35.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Hubbard, Kin

40.

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

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

Cato The Elder

42.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Hitopadesa

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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

45.

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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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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We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

49.

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

Miller, Henry

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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