Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Morley, Christopher

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

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

Barrymore, John

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

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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

Miller, Henry

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

10.

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

Socrates

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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

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

Vries, Peter De

15.

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

Proverb, English

16.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

17.

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

Hubbard, Kin

18.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

19.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

20.

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

Allen, Woody

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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

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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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

28.

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

29.

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

30.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

32.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

33.

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

34.

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

Twain, Mark

38.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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

40.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

41.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

42.

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

Charles II

43.

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

44.

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

Woolf, Virginia

45.

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

46.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Beard, James

48.

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

49.

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

Connolly, Cyril

50.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas