Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Woolf, Virginia

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

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

Proverb, French

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

Proverb, Turkish

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

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

Beard, James

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

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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''

11.

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

12.

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

Connolly, Cyril

13.

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

14.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

15.

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.

16.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

17.

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

18.

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

Miller, Henry

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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

20.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

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

22.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

23.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

24.

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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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.

26.

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

Proverb, Catalan

27.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

28.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

29.

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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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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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

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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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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

35.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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

Bible

37.

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

Cato The Elder

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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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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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

41.

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

42.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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

44.

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

Twain, Mark

45.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

46.

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

Lancaster, Burt

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If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.