Motivational Quotes

Food

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.

- Michel de Montaigne

Best Quotes about Food

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.

James Beard

Just as animal research tells us that gluttony and sloth are side effects of a drive to accumulate body fat, it also says that eating in moderation and being physically active (literally, having the energy to exercise) are not evidence of moral rectitude. Rather, they're the metabolic benefits of a body that's programmed to remain lean.

Gary Taubes

There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.

Mark Twain

Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.

Albert Einstein

What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.

Lucretius

It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.

Henry Bromel

Fat people, it is commonly held, should be punished because they offend our aesthetic sensibilities. They take up too much space on subways, buses, airplanes, and elevators. They consume more than they contribute to society. They become ill and need to be taken care of, or they die early and their families are left unsupported. The only way fat people can gain some acceptance and forgiveness for their crime of overeating is to at least try, or look like they are trying, to lose weight. They must never eat an ice cream cone in public, never be seen eating a normal sized portion of non-diet food!

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

Water is the most neglected nutrient in your diet but one of the most vital.

Kelly Barton

The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness And in the taste confounds the appetite.

William Shakespeare

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I no longer prepare food or drink with more than one ingredient.

Cyra McFadden

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Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.

Michel de Montaigne

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New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.

Mark Twain

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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

Ronald Reagan

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The people who can most successfully lose weight and maintain a healthy life style are foodies. When it comes to healthy eating, people who know how to cook and make ingredients taste good have a distinct advantage over those who can't.

Edward Ugel

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At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.

Pearl Buck

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Food is the most primitive form of comfort.

Sheila Graham

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It's the company, not the cooking, that makes a meal.

Kirby Larson

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Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

Socrates

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My ability to tolerate shame, to compartmentalize it, to swallow it, increased right along with my belt size. it came with the territory of being heavy. Obese people have a lifetime of experience with shame.

Edward Ugel

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Talking of Pleasure, this moment I was writing with one hand, and with the other holding to my Mouth a Nectarine -- how good how fine. It went down all pulpy, slushy, oozy, all its delicious embonpoint melted down my throat like a large, beautified Strawberry.

John Keats

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At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Health food makes me sick.

Calvin Trillin

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There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

George Bernard Shaw

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Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Mark Twain

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I once read cooking is something you do for your family. But when youÆre alone you sometimes have to treat yourself like family. And now that my apartmentÆs redolent with the smell of food it feels more like a home than a box where I hang my hat.

Waiter Rant

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If hunger makes you irritable, better eat and be pleasant.

Sefer Hasidim

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He who comes first, eats first. [Familiar as: First come first served.]

Eike von Repkow

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Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

Fran Lebowitz

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When I walk into my kitchen today, I am not alone. Whether we know it or not, none of us is. We bring fathers and mothers and kitchen tables, and every meal we have ever eaten. Food is never just food. It's also a way of getting at something else: who we are, who we have been, and who we want to be.

Molly Wizenberg

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If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good.

Alice May Brock

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Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.

Thomas Tusser

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The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.

Jules Renard

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Man is what he eats.

Ludwig Feuerbach

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I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.

Totie Fields

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Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.

M. F. K. Fisher

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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

Orson Welles

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Eating is always a decision, nobody forces your hand to pick up food and put it into your mouth.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said,'I'd like some fries.'The girl at the counter said,'Would you like some fries with that?'

Jay Leno

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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

Socrates

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It's amazing how pervasive food is. Every second commercial is for food. Every second TV episode takes place around a meal. In the city, you can't go ten feet without seeing or smelling a restaurant. There are 20 foot high hamburgers up on billboards. I am acutely aware of food, and its omnipresence is astounding.

Adam Scott

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You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

Julia Child

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Eating is really one of your indoor sports. You play three times a day, and it's well worth while to make the game as pleasant as possible.

Dorothy Draper

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I have never cared much for fish - it floats in the belly as much as in the pond.

Erica Eisdorfer

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A way to a man's heart is through his stomach, that shit true as gold. You put some love in your food and a fool can taste it.