Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Orwell, George

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

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

Miller, Henry

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Connolly, Cyril

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''

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

Beard, James

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

Lappe, Frances Moore

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.

10.

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

Orbach, Susie

11.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Butler, Samuel

15.

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

Proverb, English

16.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

17.

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

Cato The Elder

18.

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

Socrates

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Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

20.

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

Bible

21.

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

Proverb, Catalan

23.

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

Lancaster, Burt

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Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

25.

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

26.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

27.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

28.

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

Twain, Mark

29.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

30.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

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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

33.

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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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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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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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

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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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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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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

41.

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

Morley, Christopher

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