Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

Square meals often make round people.

- Cossman, E. Joseph

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Proverb, French

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

Socrates

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

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.

A store of grain, Oh king is the best of treasures. A gem put in your mouth will not support life.

Hitopadesa

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

Beard, James

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

Collier, William

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

10.

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

Barrymore, John

11.

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

Euripides

12.

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

Kurnitz, Harry

13.

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.

14.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

15.

It's better that it should make you sick than that you don't eat it at all.

Proverb, Catalan

16.

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

17.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

18.

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

19.

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

Vries, Peter De

20.

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

Butler, Samuel

21.

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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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

23.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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.

25.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

26.

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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God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

28.

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

Hackett, Buddy

29.

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

30.

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

Proverb, English

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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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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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A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

34.

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

Morley, Christopher

35.

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

36.

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

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Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

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

Santayana, George

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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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.

44.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

46.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 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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Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

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He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian