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

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

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

Proverb, French

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bible

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

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

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

10.

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

11.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

12.

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

Cato The Elder

13.

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

Kurnitz, Harry

14.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

15.

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

Vries, Peter De

16.

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

Butler, Samuel

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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

18.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

19.

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

Lancaster, Burt

20.

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

Miller, Henry

21.

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

Hitopadesa

22.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

23.

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

24.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

25.

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

Collier, William

26.

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

27.

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

Connolly, Cyril

28.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

29.

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

Allen, Woody

30.

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

31.

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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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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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

34.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

35.

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

Hubbard, Kin

36.

I found there was only one way to look thin, hang out with fat people.

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

Beard, James

38.

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

39.

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

Saadi

40.

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

41.

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