Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Miller, Henry

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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.

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

Kurnitz, Harry

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

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Hubbard, Kin

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

10.

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

11.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

12.

We know that every woman wants to be thin. Our images of womanhood are almost synonymous with thinness.

Orbach, Susie

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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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To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

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

Vries, Peter De

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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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To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Proverb, French

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

Miller, Henry

21.

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

Cato The Elder

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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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One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

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

Twain, Mark

25.

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

Bible

26.

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

27.

More die in the United States from too much food that from too little.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

28.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

29.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

30.

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

Santayana, George

31.

As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it, or leave it.

Hackett, Buddy

32.

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

37.

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

Orwell, George

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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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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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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

44.

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

Proverb, English

45.

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

Beard, James

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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.