Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

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

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

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

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.

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

Socrates

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

Saadi

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

10.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

11.

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

12.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

13.

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.

14.

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

Woolf, Virginia

16.

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

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

18.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

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

20.

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

Butler, Samuel

21.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

22.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

23.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

24.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

25.

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

Proverb, Turkish

26.

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

Allen, Woody

27.

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

Cato The Elder

28.

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

Lancaster, Burt

29.

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

Orwell, George

30.

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

Hackett, Buddy

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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.

32.

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

33.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

34.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

35.

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

Santayana, George

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Much meat, much disease.

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

Euripides

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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

44.

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

45.

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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God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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Sadder than destitution, sadder than a beggar is the man who eats alone in public. Nothing more contradicts the laws of man or beast, for animals always do each other the honor of sharing or disputing each other's food.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Kurnitz, Harry