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

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

Santayana, George

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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

Gilbert, W. S.

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

It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.

Cato The Elder

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

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

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

10.

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

Socrates

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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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To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Beard, James

14.

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

Collier, William

15.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

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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

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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

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

Proverb, Turkish

20.

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

Allen, Woody

21.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

22.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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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

24.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

Morley, Christopher

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

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

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We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

31.

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

32.

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

Miller, Henry

33.

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

Hitopadesa

34.

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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Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

36.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Maximus, Tyrius

40.

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.

41.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

42.

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

Lancaster, Burt

43.

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

Butler, Samuel

45.

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

Charles II

46.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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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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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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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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