Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

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

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

Hitopadesa

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

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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

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

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.

10.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

11.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Santayana, George

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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Orbach, Susie

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Proverb, Catalan

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

Proverb, English

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One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bible

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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

Kurnitz, Harry

31.

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.

32.

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

33.

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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Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

35.

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

Charles II

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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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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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Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

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

Miller, Henry

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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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We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

45.

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

Allen, Woody

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

Proverb, French

49.

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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A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.