Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Barrymore, John

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

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

Euripides

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

Allen, Woody

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

Proverb, French

10.

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

Hackett, Buddy

11.

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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

Kurnitz, Harry

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Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

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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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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

19.

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

Lancaster, Burt

20.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

21.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

24.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Proverb, Catalan

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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

29.

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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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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We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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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

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The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

35.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

37.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Saadi

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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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A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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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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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Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Collier, William

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

Bible