Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

- Sartre, Jean-Paul

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning.

Barrymore, John

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

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

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

Saadi

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.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Hitopadesa

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

10.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

Cato The Elder

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

Orbach, Susie

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

Hubbard, Kin

16.

As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it, or leave it.

Hackett, Buddy

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

Maximus, Tyrius

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

Euripides

20.

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

Miller, Henry

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That food has always been, and will continue to be, the basis for one of our greater snobbism does not explain the fact that the attitude toward the food choice of others is becoming more and more heatedly exclusive until it may well turn into one of those forms of bigotry against which gallant little committees are constantly planning campaigns in the cause of justice and decency.

Skinner, Cornelia Otis

22.

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

Charles II

23.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

24.

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

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To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

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

Orwell, George

28.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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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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Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Socrates

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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