Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

- Moffett, Thomas

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

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

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

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

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

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''

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

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Proverb, French

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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

Proverb, Catalan

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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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God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

22.

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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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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To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Proverb, English

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

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Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

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

Charles II

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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

Hackett, Buddy

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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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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To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

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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.