Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

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

Allen, Woody

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

The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth.

Lappe, Frances Moore

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

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

Proverb, Catalan

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

Santayana, George

11.

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

Lancaster, Burt

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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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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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

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We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Kurnitz, Harry

18.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Vries, Peter De

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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

21.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Proverb, French

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

Cato The Elder

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

Beard, James

27.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

28.

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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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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A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

32.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

33.

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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A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Twain, Mark

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Orwell, George

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A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

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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

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

Collier, William

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

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Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Lunch is for wimps.