Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

- Beethoven, Ludwig Van

Best Quotes about Food and eating

There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.

Santayana, George

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

Hitopadesa

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

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

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

Proverb, French

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

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

Charles II

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

Lancaster, Burt

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

10.

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

Morley, Christopher

11.

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

Twain, Mark

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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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.

14.

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

Collier, William

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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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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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Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

18.

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Proverb, Turkish

20.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

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A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

22.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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

Socrates

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Miller, Henry

31.

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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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

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

Maximus, Tyrius

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

Cato The Elder

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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

38.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Saadi

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

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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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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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Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

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To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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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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To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.