Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

Best Quotes about Food and eating

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead -- not sick, not wounded -- dead.

Allen, Woody

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

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.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

10.

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

11.

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

Saadi

12.

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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We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

14.

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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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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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

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

Kurnitz, Harry

18.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

19.

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

Cato The Elder

20.

Edible. Good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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

Lancaster, Burt

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Proverb, Catalan

28.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

29.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

30.

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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Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

32.

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

Hitopadesa

33.

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

Orbach, Susie

34.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

35.

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

Charles II

36.

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Collier, William

38.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

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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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For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.

Steinem, Gloria

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

Socrates

42.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

43.

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