Motivational Quotes

Food

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Food

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

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

Mark Twain

Health food makes me sick.

Calvin Trillin

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

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

Henry Bromel

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

Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.

P. J. O'Rourke

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Socrates

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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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Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.

Epictetus

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If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat, the least we can do is prepare them well and serve them with ceremony.

Fernand Point

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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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Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

Fran Lebowitz

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Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you, and be silent.

Epictetus

18.

Never eat more than you can lift.

Miss Piggy

19.

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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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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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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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

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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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Good food ends with good talk.

Geoffrey Neighor

25.

Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.

Thomas Tusser

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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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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

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Food is our common ground, a universal experience.

James Beard

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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

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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

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

Kirby Larson

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

Kelly Barton

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

Eike von Repkow

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

Sefer Hasidim

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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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We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.

Adelle Davis

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There ain't no such thing as wrong food.

Sean Stewart

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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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There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Cyra McFadden

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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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We don't get fat because we overeat; we overeat because we're getting fat.