Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Lebowitz, Fran

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Lancaster, Burt

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

Collier, William

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Maximus, Tyrius

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

Bible

10.

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

11.

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

Proverb, Turkish

12.

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

Santayana, George

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

Saadi

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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

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We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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

Miller, Henry

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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

18.

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

Hackett, Buddy

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Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

20.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

22.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

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A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

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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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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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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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

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

Connolly, Cyril

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Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Morley, Christopher

34.

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

Vries, Peter De

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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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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

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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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Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Socrates

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

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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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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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More die in the United States from too much food that from too little.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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

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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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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