Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Gilbert, W. S.

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

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''

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

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

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Proverb, English

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

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

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

Beard, James

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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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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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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

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A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

14.

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

Collier, William

16.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

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Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

18.

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

Orbach, Susie

19.

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

Santayana, George

20.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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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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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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.

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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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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

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Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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He who cannot eat horsemeat need not do so. Let him eat pork. But he who cannot eat pork, let him eat horsemeat. It's simply a question of taste.

Khrushchev, Nikita

30.

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

Twain, Mark

31.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

33.

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

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

Hackett, Buddy

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

Allen, Woody

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Vries, Peter De

40.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

42.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

43.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Proverb, French

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Saadi

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

Orwell, George

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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.