Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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.

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

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

Vries, Peter De

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

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

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

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

Hubbard, Kin

Francis De Sales, St.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

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

Twain, Mark

10.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

11.

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

Socrates

12.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

13.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

14.

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

15.

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

Saadi

16.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

17.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

18.

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

19.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

20.

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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Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

22.

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

24.

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

Collier, William

25.

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

Lancaster, Burt

26.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

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

Woolf, Virginia

29.

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

Charles II

30.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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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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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

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

Beard, James

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A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

38.

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

Hackett, Buddy

39.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

40.

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

Cato The Elder

43.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

44.

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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More die in the United States from too much food that from too little.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

46.

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

Orbach, Susie

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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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Square meals often make round people.