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

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

Cato The Elder

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

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.

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.

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

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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

Kurnitz, Harry

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

Connolly, Cyril

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

10.

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

Proverb, English

11.

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

12.

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

Orbach, Susie

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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

14.

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

Euripides

15.

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.

16.

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

17.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

18.

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

19.

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

Twain, Mark

20.

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

21.

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

Proverb, Turkish

22.

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

Proverb, French

23.

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

Bible

24.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

25.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

26.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

27.

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

Beard, James

28.

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

Butler, Samuel

29.

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

30.

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

Charles II

31.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

33.

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Saadi

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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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We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

39.

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

40.

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

Hitopadesa

41.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

42.

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

Allen, Woody

43.

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

Morley, Christopher

44.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

45.

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

Lappe, Frances Moore

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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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Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

49.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Maximus, Tyrius