Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Lebowitz, Fran

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

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

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

Miller, Henry

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Allen, Woody

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

10.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

11.

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

Proverb, French

12.

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

Orwell, George

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He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

15.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

16.

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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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

18.

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

Hackett, Buddy

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

Connolly, Cyril

21.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

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

Proverb, Hebrew

25.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Saadi

27.

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

Proverb, English

28.

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

29.

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

Lappe, Frances Moore

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

Barrymore, John

32.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

33.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

34.

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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Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like -- and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres.

Munro, Hector Hugh

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We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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

Cato The Elder

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Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

39.

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

40.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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

42.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

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

Socrates

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

Charles II

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We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Proverb, Catalan