Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Hackett, Buddy

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

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

Vries, Peter De

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

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

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Euripides

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Connolly, Cyril

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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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Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

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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

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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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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Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

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

Saadi

24.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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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 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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Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Kurnitz, Harry

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

Allen, Woody

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

39.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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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A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

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

Proverb, English

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Orbach, Susie

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

Maximus, Tyrius

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