Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

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

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

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

Hackett, Buddy

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

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

Euripides

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.

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

Lappe, Frances Moore

10.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

11.

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

12.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

13.

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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Choose rather to punish your appetites than be punished by them.

Maximus, Tyrius

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

Bible

16.

For its merit I will knight it, and then it will be Sir-Loin.

Charles II

17.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

18.

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

Orbach, Susie

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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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Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

22.

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

Socrates

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

Kurnitz, Harry

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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

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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

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

Miller, Henry

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We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Vries, Peter De

33.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

34.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Proverb, Catalan

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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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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

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He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

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Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

43.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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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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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.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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