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

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

Hubbard, Kin

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.

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

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

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Vries, Peter De

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

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

Proverb, French

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

10.

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.

11.

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

Euripides

12.

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

Hitopadesa

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Orwell, George

16.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

19.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

20.

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

21.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

22.

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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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

24.

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

Allen, Woody

25.

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

Twain, Mark

26.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

27.

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

Proverb, Turkish

28.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

29.

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

30.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

31.

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

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

Socrates

35.

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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Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

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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

38.

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

Santayana, George

39.

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

Morley, Christopher

40.

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

Lappe, Frances Moore

41.

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

Lancaster, Burt

42.

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

Saadi

43.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

44.

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

Orbach, Susie

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

46.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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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

48.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

49.

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

Collier, William