Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

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

Morley, Christopher

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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.

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

Proverb, English

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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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Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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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A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Allen, Woody

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We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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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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He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Connolly, Cyril

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To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

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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

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

Collier, William

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

Kurnitz, Harry

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

Maximus, Tyrius

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Barrymore, John

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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

28.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, 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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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

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

Socrates

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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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Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

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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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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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To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Saadi

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

Proverb, French

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Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

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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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A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

43.

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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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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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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Most of us are either too think to enjoy eating, or too fat to enjoy walking.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Euripides

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