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

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

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

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

Proverb, French

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Barrymore, John

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

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

Allen, Woody

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

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

Euripides

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To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

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

Proverb, English

14.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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

Charles II

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

Twain, Mark

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

Morley, Christopher

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To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

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Benjamin, Walter

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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

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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.

Hitopadesa

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

Saadi

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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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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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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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God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

31.

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

Orbach, Susie

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

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Put a knife to thy throat, if you're a man given to appetite.

Bible

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

Socrates

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

Maximus, Tyrius

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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

42.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Proverb, Catalan

44.

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Lancaster, Burt

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