Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Cato The Elder

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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

Barrymore, John

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

Proverb, French

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

Saadi

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

Kurnitz, Harry

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

Collier, William

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

Gilbert, W. S.

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

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

Santayana, George

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

Cato The Elder

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As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it, or leave it.

Hackett, Buddy

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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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We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

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

Morley, Christopher

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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 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

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Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

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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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There is only one thing harder than looking for a dewdrop in the dew, and that is fishing for a clam in the clam chowder.

Proverb, New England

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

Maximus, Tyrius

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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

26.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Vries, Peter De

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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

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

Connolly, Cyril

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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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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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We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Bible

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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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He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

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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

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

Lancaster, Burt

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A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

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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''