Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Charles II

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

More die in the United States from too much food that from too little.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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.

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

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Miller, Henry

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

Maximus, Tyrius

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To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

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

Charles II

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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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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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God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Hackett, Buddy

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

Orbach, Susie

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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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

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Twain, Mark

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

Santayana, George

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He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Proverb, French

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A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

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

Bible

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

36.

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

Lancaster, Burt

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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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When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.

Euripides

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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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We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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

Barrymore, John

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

Collier, William

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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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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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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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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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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