Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

Square meals often make round people.

- Cossman, E. Joseph

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

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

Allen, Woody

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

Proverb, French

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

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

Kurnitz, Harry

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Lancaster, Burt

18.

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

Vries, Peter De

19.

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

Miller, Henry

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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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Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Twain, Mark

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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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

29.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

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

Charles II

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One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

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To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Proverb, English

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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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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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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 human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

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

Socrates

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Connolly, Cyril