Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

- Moffett, Thomas

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

A store of grain, Oh king is the best of treasures. A gem put in your mouth will not support life.

Hitopadesa

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Proverb, English

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Gilbert, W. S.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

10.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

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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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He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

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Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

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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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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

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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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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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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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We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Cato The Elder

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Kurnitz, Harry

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

Proverb, Catalan

28.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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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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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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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A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

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

Charles II

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Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Orbach, Susie

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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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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

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

Proverb, French

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