Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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.

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

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

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Allen, Woody

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Miller, Henry

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

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

Morley, Christopher

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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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Saadi

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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Twain, Mark

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

Proverb, French

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To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

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

Kurnitz, Harry

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

Charles II

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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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A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

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

Lancaster, Burt

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When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.

Euripides

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

Proverb, Catalan

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Collier, William

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

Hackett, Buddy

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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

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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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Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Santayana, George