Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Proverb, Catalan

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

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

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

Kurnitz, Harry

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

Twain, Mark

It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it. There are some things in every country that you must be born to endure; and another hundred years of general satisfaction with Americans and America could not reconcile this expatriate to cranberry sauce, peanut butter, and drum majorettes.

Cooke, Alistair

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

You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread.

Miller, Henry

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

Barrymore, John

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

Santayana, George

11.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

12.

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

Morley, Christopher

13.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

14.

It ain't what you eat, but the way how you chew it.

Mcclinton, Delbert

15.

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

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

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

18.

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

Lappe, Frances Moore

19.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

20.

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

Proverb, French

21.

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

Allen, Woody

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Bible

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Charles II

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

Saadi

32.

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

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We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

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A store of grain, Oh king is the best of treasures. A gem put in your mouth will not support life.

Hitopadesa

37.

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

Proverb, Turkish

38.

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Vries, Peter De

40.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

41.

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

42.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

43.

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

Collier, William

44.

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

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

Lancaster, Burt

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

Lebowitz, Fran

48.

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.