Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

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

Bible

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

Collier, William

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

Proverb, English

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

Hackett, Buddy

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

Gilbert, W. S.

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

Butler, Samuel

10.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

11.

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''

12.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

13.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

14.

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

Lancaster, Burt

15.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Euripides

19.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

20.

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

21.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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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.

23.

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

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

Proverb, French

26.

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

27.

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

Saadi

28.

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

Cato The Elder

29.

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

Proverb, Turkish

32.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

33.

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

34.

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

Charles II

35.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

39.

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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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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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

42.

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

Santayana, George

43.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

44.

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