Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

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

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

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

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

Barrymore, John

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

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

Collier, William

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

Lebowitz, Fran

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

10.

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

Orbach, Susie

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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

Orwell, George

14.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Maximus, Tyrius

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

Bible

18.

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

Beard, James

19.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

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

Socrates

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I judge a restaurant by the bread and by the coffee.

Lancaster, Burt

25.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

26.

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

Hackett, Buddy

30.

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

Hitopadesa

31.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

32.

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

Proverb, Turkish

33.

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

Cato The Elder

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

Saadi

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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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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

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God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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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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A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

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

Proverb, English

48.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Butler, Samuel