Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

- Sartre, Jean-Paul

Best Quotes about Food and eating

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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

Twain, Mark

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Miller, Henry

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

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

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

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

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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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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 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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He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

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To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

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

Proverb, French

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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

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

Euripides

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Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

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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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One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

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God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Maximus, Tyrius

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

Allen, Woody

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The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Turkish

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Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Kurnitz, Harry

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

Charles II

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Saadi

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