Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

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

Kurnitz, Harry

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''

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

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

Collier, William

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

Orwell, George

10.

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

11.

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

Connolly, Cyril

12.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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

14.

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

Orbach, Susie

15.

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

16.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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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.

18.

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

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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

20.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

21.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

22.

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.

23.

It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.

Gilbert, W. S.

24.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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

27.

The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth.

Lappe, Frances Moore

28.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

29.

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

Miller, Henry

30.

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

31.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

32.

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

Santayana, George

33.

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

34.

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

35.

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

Charles II

36.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

37.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

38.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

39.

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

Saadi

40.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

41.

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

Morley, Christopher

42.

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

Woolf, Virginia

43.

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

Lancaster, Burt

44.

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

Hitopadesa

45.

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

46.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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.