Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Gilbert, W. S.

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Charles II

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

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

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

Vries, Peter De

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

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

Kurnitz, Harry

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

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

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

Cato The Elder

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

Orwell, George

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

Maximus, Tyrius

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

Hackett, Buddy

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

Bible

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To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Twain, Mark

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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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We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Beard, James

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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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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Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Allen, Woody

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