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

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Santayana, George

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

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Orwell, George

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

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

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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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A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

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One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Lancaster, Burt

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Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Proverb, Catalan

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

Charles II

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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

Proverb, English

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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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Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

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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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The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

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

Saadi

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Bible

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

Maximus, Tyrius

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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

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

Miller, Henry

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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

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

Connolly, Cyril

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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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We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Proverb, French

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

Kurnitz, Harry

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To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Hitopadesa

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Francis De Sales, St.