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

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

Twain, Mark

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Orbach, Susie

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

Kurnitz, Harry

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

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

Gilbert, W. S.

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

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

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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

14.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

15.

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

16.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

17.

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

18.

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

Proverb, Catalan

19.

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

20.

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

21.

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

22.

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

Santayana, George

23.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

24.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

25.

I found there was only one way to look thin, hang out with fat people.

Dangerfield, Rodney

26.

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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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

28.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

29.

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

30.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

31.

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

Collier, William

32.

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

Beard, James

33.

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

Hackett, Buddy

34.

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

Connolly, Cyril

35.

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

Bible

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

38.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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''

40.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

41.

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

Proverb, English

42.

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

Charles II

43.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

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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.

45.

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

Morley, Christopher

46.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

47.

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

Orwell, George

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