Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Dangerfield, Rodney

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Orwell, George

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

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

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

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''

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

Proverb, English

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.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

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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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

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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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We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Bible

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

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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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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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Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

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

Kurnitz, Harry

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

Hackett, Buddy

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

Woolf, Virginia

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Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the endless quest for new taste sensations. Now they are a little like those desperate junkies who have tried every known drug and are finally reduced to mainlining toilet bowl cleanser in an effort to get still higher.

Bryson, Bill

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

Butler, Samuel

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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

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Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Lancaster, Burt

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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 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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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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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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Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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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

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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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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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

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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