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

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

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

Saadi

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Proverb, French

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

Lancaster, Burt

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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

Allen, Woody

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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

Maximus, Tyrius

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

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

Bible

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

Connolly, Cyril

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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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Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

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

Santayana, George

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

Socrates

37.

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

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He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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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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Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Euripides

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

Charles II

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

Butler, Samuel

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Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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