Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Gilbert, W. S.

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

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''

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Orwell, George

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

Saadi

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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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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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

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Socrates

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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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Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

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

Twain, Mark

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To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

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We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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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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God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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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A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

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He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

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Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

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

Connolly, Cyril

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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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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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Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

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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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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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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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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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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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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One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.