Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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.

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

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

Barrymore, John

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Allen, Woody

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Santayana, George

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

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

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

Lancaster, Burt

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God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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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A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

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

Charles II

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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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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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Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Saadi

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

Proverb, Catalan

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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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Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

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

Twain, Mark

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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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We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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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Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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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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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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Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

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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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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