Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

Most of us are either too think to enjoy eating, or too fat to enjoy walking.

- Howe, Edgar Watson

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

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

Euripides

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

Miller, Henry

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

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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.

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

Barrymore, John

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

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

Proverb, English

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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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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 eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Morley, Christopher

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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

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

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A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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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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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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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Much meat, much disease.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Connolly, Cyril

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God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Twain, Mark

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

Saadi

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Lancaster, Burt

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

Vries, Peter De

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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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Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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

Proverb, Catalan

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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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Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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