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

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

Woolf, Virginia

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

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

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

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

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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We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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

Charles II

12.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Miller, Henry

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

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A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

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

Proverb, English

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

Hackett, Buddy

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

Bible

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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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To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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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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Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

34.

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

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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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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One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Beard, James

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God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

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

Saadi

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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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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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Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

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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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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

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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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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