Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Food and eating

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

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

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

Euripides

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

Kurnitz, Harry

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

Proverb, Hebrew

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

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

Maximus, Tyrius

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

Lebowitz, Fran

10.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

11.

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

12.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

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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

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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

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

Charles II

18.

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

Proverb, French

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

Collier, William

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One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Socrates

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

Orwell, George

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A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

30.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Beard, James

32.

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

Allen, Woody

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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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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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A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Proverb, English

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Saadi

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

Santayana, George