Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Galbraith, John Kenneth

Best Quotes about Food and eating

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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

Twain, Mark

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

Gilbert, W. S.

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

Kurnitz, Harry

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

Morley, Christopher

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

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

Miller, Henry

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

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

10.

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.

11.

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

12.

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

Bible

13.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

14.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

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

Allen, Woody

16.

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

Hubbard, Kin

17.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

18.

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

Charles II

19.

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

20.

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

21.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

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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

23.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

24.

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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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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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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Butler, Samuel

32.

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

33.

He that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.

Proverb, Hebrew

34.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

35.

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

Orbach, Susie

36.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

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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

38.

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

Collier, William

39.

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

Santayana, George

40.

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

41.

The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth.

Lappe, Frances Moore

42.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

46.

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

Orwell, George

47.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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

49.

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

Connolly, Cyril

50.

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

Socrates