Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Food and eating

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

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

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

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

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.

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

Kurnitz, Harry

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

10.

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

Miller, Henry

11.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

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

Butler, Samuel

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A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

17.

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

18.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

19.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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

Allen, Woody

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

Hackett, Buddy

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

Beard, James

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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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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

25.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

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

Orwell, George

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Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

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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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God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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 an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

Vries, Peter De

34.

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

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One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Collier, William

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A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

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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

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Socrates

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

Bible

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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.