Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning.

- Barrymore, John

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

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

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 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.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

10.

Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we may diet.

Kurnitz, Harry

11.

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

Proverb, French

12.

My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

13.

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

Twain, Mark

14.

The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.

Butler, Samuel

15.

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

Proverb, Turkish

16.

For its merit I will knight it, and then it will be Sir-Loin.

Charles II

17.

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

Proverb, English

18.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

19.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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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

21.

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

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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.

Lappe, Frances Moore

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We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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

Orwell, George

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Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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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.

30.

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

Bible

32.

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

33.

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

Euripides

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To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

35.

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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A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

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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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Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

39.

The soup is never hot enough if the waiter can keep his thumb in it.

Collier, William

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

Cato The Elder

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

Maximus, Tyrius

44.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

45.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

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

Beard, James

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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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God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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