Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

To eat is human, to digest divine.

- Copeland, Charles T.

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Lappe, Frances Moore

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.

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

Morley, Christopher

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.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Beard, James

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

10.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

11.

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

12.

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

Kurnitz, Harry

13.

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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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

15.

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

Bible

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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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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

18.

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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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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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

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

Lancaster, Burt

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God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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''

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

Socrates

28.

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

Collier, William

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

Proverb, French

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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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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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A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

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To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

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

Miller, Henry

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Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

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

Orwell, George

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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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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Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

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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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To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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