Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

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

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

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Cato The Elder

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

Santayana, George

10.

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

11.

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

Euripides

13.

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

Charles II

14.

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

Socrates

15.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

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

Proverb, Catalan

17.

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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I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead -- not sick, not wounded -- dead.

Allen, Woody

19.

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

Beard, James

20.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

21.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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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

23.

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

Twain, Mark

24.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

25.

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

Morley, Christopher

26.

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

27.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

28.

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

Proverb, French

29.

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

30.

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

Hitopadesa

31.

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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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.

33.

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

Lancaster, Burt

34.

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

Butler, Samuel

35.

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

Collier, William

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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

37.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

38.

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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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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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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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

42.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

43.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

44.

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

45.

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

Proverb, English

46.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

47.

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

Orbach, Susie

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A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.