Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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.

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

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

Morley, Christopher

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

I found there was only one way to look thin, hang out with fat people.

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

Charles II

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 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

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

10.

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

Beard, James

12.

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

Butler, Samuel

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Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

14.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

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

Proverb, French

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To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

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

Saadi

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A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

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

Miller, Henry

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

Socrates

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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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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Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Bible

33.

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

Euripides

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

Lebowitz, Fran

38.

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

Collier, William

39.

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

Allen, Woody

40.

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

41.

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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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

45.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

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Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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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Much meat, much disease.