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

More die in the United States from too much food that from too little.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

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

Cato The Elder

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Miller, Henry

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

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Proverb, Catalan

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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

11.

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

Orwell, George

12.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

13.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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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

16.

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

Proverb, English

17.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

18.

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

Euripides

19.

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

20.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

21.

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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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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We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Hackett, Buddy

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

31.

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

Saadi

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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 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

35.

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

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

Proverb, Turkish

37.

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

Santayana, George

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Proverb, French

40.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Vries, Peter De

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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

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

Lancaster, Burt

44.

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

Socrates

46.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

47.

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

Allen, Woody

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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