Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

- Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Proverb, French

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

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

Beard, James

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Butler, Samuel

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

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

Socrates

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

Santayana, George

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

Bible

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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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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

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To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

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A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Charles II

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One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

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God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

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To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

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

Collier, William

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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

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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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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

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

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We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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

Cato The Elder

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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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

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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

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A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

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

Saadi

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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