Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

Lunch is for wimps.

- Stone, Oliver

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

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

Collier, William

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

He that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.

Proverb, Hebrew

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.

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

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

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

Twain, Mark

10.

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

11.

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Miller, Henry

15.

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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Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

17.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

18.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

19.

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

20.

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

Lancaster, Burt

21.

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

Hubbard, Kin

22.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

25.

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

Hackett, Buddy

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

Saadi

28.

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

Hitopadesa

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

30.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

31.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

32.

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

33.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

34.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

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

Beard, James

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

Santayana, George

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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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

43.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

44.

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

Proverb, Catalan

45.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

46.

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

Bible

47.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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.