Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

- Jefferson, Thomas

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Orwell, George

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

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

Morley, Christopher

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

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

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

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

10.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

11.

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

12.

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

Santayana, George

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

Kurnitz, Harry

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Hackett, Buddy

18.

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

19.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Twain, Mark

23.

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

Vries, Peter De

24.

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

Socrates

25.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

26.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

27.

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.

28.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

29.

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

30.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

31.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

32.

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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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

34.

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

Charles II

35.

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

Proverb, French

36.

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

37.

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

Collier, William

38.

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

39.

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

40.

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

Saadi

42.

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

Hubbard, Kin

43.

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

44.

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

Bible

45.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

46.

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''

47.

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

48.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

49.

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

Orbach, Susie

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It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.

Cato The Elder