Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Vries, Peter De

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

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.

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Gilbert, W. S.

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

Socrates

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

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Cato The Elder

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

Proverb, Catalan

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Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

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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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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 is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.

Saadi

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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

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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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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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A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

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God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Proverb, English

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

Vries, Peter De

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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Orbach, Susie

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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

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

Woolf, Virginia

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Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

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

Orwell, George

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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

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

Miller, Henry

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Maximus, Tyrius

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

Hubbard, Kin