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

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

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

Allen, Woody

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

Santayana, George

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

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

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

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

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

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

Maximus, Tyrius

10.

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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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.

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

Beard, James

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

Proverb, French

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

Proverb, Catalan

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He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Woolf, Virginia

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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Proverb, English

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

Lappe, Frances Moore

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

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We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Collier, William

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

Bible

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

Charles II

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

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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 is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

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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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I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning.

Barrymore, John