Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Charles II

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

Orbach, Susie

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

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

Beard, James

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

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

Collier, William

10.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

11.

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

Lappe, Frances Moore

12.

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

Vries, Peter De

13.

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

Proverb, French

14.

A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.

Hubbard, Kin

15.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

16.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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

18.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

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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.

20.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

21.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

22.

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

Lancaster, Burt

23.

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

24.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

25.

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

Euripides

26.

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

Orwell, George

28.

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

Santayana, George

29.

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

Proverb, English

30.

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

31.

A store of grain, Oh king is the best of treasures. A gem put in your mouth will not support life.

Hitopadesa

32.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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''

34.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

35.

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

Saadi

36.

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

Hackett, Buddy

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

Miller, Henry

38.

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

Connolly, Cyril

39.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

40.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Proverb, Catalan

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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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To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

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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.