Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Orbach, Susie

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Collier, William

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

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

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

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

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

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

10.

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

Morley, Christopher

11.

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

13.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Socrates

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

23.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

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

Bible

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Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

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

Gilbert, W. S.

29.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Miller, Henry

35.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Connolly, Cyril

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Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

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

Euripides

44.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

45.

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

Allen, Woody

46.

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

Twain, Mark

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That food has always been, and will continue to be, the basis for one of our greater snobbism does not explain the fact that the attitude toward the food choice of others is becoming more and more heatedly exclusive until it may well turn into one of those forms of bigotry against which gallant little committees are constantly planning campaigns in the cause of justice and decency.

Skinner, Cornelia Otis

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

Dangerfield, Rodney