Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

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

Socrates

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

Barrymore, John

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

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 most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

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

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

Maximus, Tyrius

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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

Euripides

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

Orbach, Susie

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

Santayana, George

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

Allen, Woody

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Bible

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A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Morley, Christopher

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Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Proverb, English

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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 are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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

Kurnitz, Harry

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

Saadi

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Twain, Mark

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

Hackett, Buddy