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

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

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

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

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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

Santayana, George

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

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

Butler, Samuel

10.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

11.

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

Proverb, English

12.

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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Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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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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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God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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Appetite comes with eating; the more one has, the more one would have.

Proverb, French

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

Orwell, George

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

Saadi

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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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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

29.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

30.

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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The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

32.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

33.

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

Cato The Elder

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He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

35.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

36.

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

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Want to learn to eat a lot? Here it is: Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Kurnitz, Harry

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One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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.

41.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

42.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

44.

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

Euripides

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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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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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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

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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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To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul