Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

- Beethoven, Ludwig Van

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

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

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

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

Orwell, George

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

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

Socrates

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

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

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

10.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

11.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

12.

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

Beard, James

13.

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

Proverb, Catalan

14.

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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.

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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

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

Miller, Henry

18.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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

20.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

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God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

Proverb, Turkish

30.

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

Vries, Peter De

31.

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Hackett, Buddy

33.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

34.

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

Santayana, George

35.

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

Lancaster, Burt

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The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

39.

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

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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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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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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

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

Morley, Christopher

46.

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

Proverb, English

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

Charles II

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