Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

- Sartre, Jean-Paul

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Orwell, George

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

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Proverb, Catalan

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Connolly, Cyril

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

10.

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Socrates

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

Maximus, Tyrius

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

Cato The Elder

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

Proverb, English

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

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One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Charles II

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

Bible

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To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

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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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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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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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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Lancaster, Burt

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Sadder than destitution, sadder than a beggar is the man who eats alone in public. Nothing more contradicts the laws of man or beast, for animals always do each other the honor of sharing or disputing each other's food.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Beard, James

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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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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

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Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

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We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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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 gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

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The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

48.

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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Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

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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