Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

- Moffett, Thomas

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Euripides

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Orwell, George

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

Twain, Mark

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

Lappe, Frances Moore

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

Orbach, Susie

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Bible

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

Kurnitz, Harry

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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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Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

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

Hackett, Buddy

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Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

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

Proverb, French

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A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Proverb, Turkish

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Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

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

Maximus, Tyrius

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

Cato The Elder

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

Gilbert, W. S.

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Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

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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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

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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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God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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