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

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

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

Proverb, English

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

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

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

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

Morley, Christopher

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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

11.

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

Twain, Mark

12.

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

Hackett, Buddy

13.

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

Kurnitz, Harry

16.

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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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

18.

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

19.

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

Lancaster, Burt

20.

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

Socrates

21.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

22.

I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning.

Barrymore, John

23.

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

24.

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

Allen, Woody

25.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

26.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

27.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

28.

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

Charles II

29.

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

30.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

31.

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

Saadi

32.

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

Bible

33.

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

Proverb, Catalan

34.

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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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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

37.

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

Beard, James

38.

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

39.

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Collier, William

43.

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

Butler, Samuel

44.

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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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

46.

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

Hubbard, Kin

47.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

48.

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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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.