Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Proverb, Turkish

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Cato The Elder

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Beard, James

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

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Miller, Henry

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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.

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To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

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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''

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Kurnitz, Harry

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We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

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One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Socrates

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

Charles II

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Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

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

Bible

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Euripides

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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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A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

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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

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

Gilbert, W. S.

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Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

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

Twain, Mark

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

Morley, Christopher

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Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

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