Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

10.

A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.

Hubbard, Kin

11.

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

Woolf, Virginia

12.

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

13.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

14.

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

15.

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

Orwell, George

16.

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

17.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

18.

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

Orbach, Susie

19.

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

20.

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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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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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

23.

It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.

Cato The Elder

24.

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

Proverb, Catalan

25.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

26.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

27.

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

Morley, Christopher

28.

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

Proverb, French

30.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

31.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

32.

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

33.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

34.

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

35.

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

Kurnitz, Harry

36.

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

Lancaster, Burt

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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.

38.

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

Proverb, English

39.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

40.

It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.

Gilbert, W. S.

41.

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

Beard, James

42.

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

Charles II

43.

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

Socrates

45.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

46.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

47.

He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.

Saadi

48.

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

Connolly, Cyril

49.

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

Butler, Samuel

50.

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