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

He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.

Saadi

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

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

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

Proverb, French

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

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.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

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

A store of grain, Oh king is the best of treasures. A gem put in your mouth will not support life.

Hitopadesa

10.

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.

11.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

12.

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

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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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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

15.

As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it, or leave it.

Hackett, Buddy

16.

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

Euripides

17.

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

18.

It ain't what you eat, but the way how you chew it.

Mcclinton, Delbert

19.

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

20.

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

Vries, Peter De

21.

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

Lancaster, Burt

22.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

23.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

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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

25.

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

Butler, Samuel

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One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

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 gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

29.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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

31.

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

Charles II

32.

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

Twain, Mark

33.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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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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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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

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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

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

Kurnitz, Harry

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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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We know that every woman wants to be thin. Our images of womanhood are almost synonymous with thinness.

Orbach, Susie

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

Proverb, Catalan

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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.

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

Proverb, English

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

Cato The Elder

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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 isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.

Gilbert, W. S.

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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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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