Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Howe, Edgar Watson

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

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

Proverb, Catalan

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

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

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Santayana, George

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

10.

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

11.

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

Bible

14.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

15.

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

16.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

17.

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

18.

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

Proverb, English

19.

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

Vries, Peter De

20.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

21.

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

Proverb, Turkish

22.

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

Euripides

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

Saadi

25.

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

Collier, William

26.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

27.

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

Hackett, Buddy

28.

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

Morley, Christopher

29.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

30.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Orwell, George

33.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

34.

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

35.

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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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 seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Maximus, Tyrius

40.

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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A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

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

Beard, James

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

Proverb, Hebrew

45.

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

Socrates

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth