Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

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

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

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

10.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

11.

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

12.

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

13.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

14.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

15.

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

Santayana, George

16.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

17.

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

18.

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

Miller, Henry

19.

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

20.

He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.

Saadi

21.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

22.

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

23.

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

Morley, Christopher

24.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

25.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

26.

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

Allen, Woody

28.

I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning.

Barrymore, John

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Beard, James

32.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

33.

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

Proverb, French

34.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

35.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Gilbert, W. S.

38.

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

39.

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

Butler, Samuel

40.

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

Orwell, George

42.

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

43.

The soup is never hot enough if the waiter can keep his thumb in it.

Collier, William

44.

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.

45.

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

Socrates

46.

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

Connolly, Cyril

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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

48.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

49.

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

Orbach, Susie

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Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb