Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

- Sartre, Jean-Paul

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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''

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

Orbach, Susie

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

Twain, Mark

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.

10.

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

Woolf, Virginia

11.

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

Hubbard, Kin

12.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

13.

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

Santayana, George

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

Socrates

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To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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

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

Collier, William

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

Orwell, George

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

Beard, James

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

Kurnitz, Harry

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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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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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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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God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

30.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

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

Proverb, French

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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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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

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

Lancaster, Burt

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Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

43.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Saadi

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Lunch is for wimps.