Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Orbach, Susie

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Cato The Elder

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

Twain, Mark

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

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

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.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

11.

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

Euripides

12.

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

Woolf, Virginia

13.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

14.

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

Hackett, Buddy

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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

16.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

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One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

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

19.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

20.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

21.

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

Kurnitz, Harry

22.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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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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

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The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

27.

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

Orbach, Susie

29.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

30.

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

Morley, Christopher

31.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

32.

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

Socrates

33.

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

Lancaster, Burt

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Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

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

Orwell, George

40.

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 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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It ain't what you eat, but the way how you chew it.

Mcclinton, Delbert

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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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To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

45.

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

Allen, Woody

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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

47.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

48.

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

Charles II

49.

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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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