Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Hubbard, Kin

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

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

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

Maximus, Tyrius

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

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

10.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

11.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

12.

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

Orwell, George

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

Orbach, Susie

16.

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

Allen, Woody

17.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

18.

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

Hubbard, Kin

19.

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

Collier, William

20.

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

Vries, Peter De

21.

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

Proverb, Catalan

23.

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

Euripides

24.

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

25.

The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth.

Lappe, Frances Moore

26.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

27.

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

Saadi

28.

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

Kurnitz, Harry

29.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

30.

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

31.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

32.

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

Twain, Mark

33.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

34.

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.

35.

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

Proverb, Turkish

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Morley, Christopher

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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

40.

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

41.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Hackett, Buddy

43.

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

Proverb, French

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

Socrates

45.

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

Proverb, English

46.

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

47.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

48.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

49.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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God comes to the hungry in the form of food.