Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Lancaster, Burt

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

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''

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

Barrymore, John

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Cato The Elder

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

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

Saadi

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

Bible

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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.

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

Butler, Samuel

12.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

13.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

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

Beard, James

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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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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

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To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

18.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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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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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

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

Collier, William

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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.

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

Proverb, Turkish

27.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

28.

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

Morley, Christopher

29.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

30.

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.

31.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

32.

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

Miller, Henry

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

Proverb, English

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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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Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

37.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

39.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

40.

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

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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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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

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The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

44.

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

Hitopadesa

45.

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

Santayana, George

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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

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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

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We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

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God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Orwell, George