Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

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

Cato The Elder

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

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

Maximus, Tyrius

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

Proverb, English

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

Proverb, Catalan

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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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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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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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A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Miller, Henry

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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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A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

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One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Socrates

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Vries, Peter De

37.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

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Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

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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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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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Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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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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To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Lancaster, Burt

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The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth.