Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

Best Quotes about Food and eating

If you're going to America, bring your own food.

Lebowitz, Fran

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

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

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.

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

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Orwell, George

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

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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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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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To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

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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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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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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Proverb, English

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

Charles II

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I judge a restaurant by the bread and by the coffee.

Lancaster, Burt

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

Maximus, Tyrius

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

Gilbert, W. S.

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

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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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Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Proverb, Catalan

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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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We seldom report of having eaten too little.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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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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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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Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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

Saadi