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

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

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

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

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Kurnitz, Harry

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

Orwell, George

10.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

11.

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

Allen, Woody

14.

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

15.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

16.

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

Barrymore, John

17.

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

Vries, Peter De

18.

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

Morley, Christopher

19.

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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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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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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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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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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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

25.

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

Santayana, George

26.

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

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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.

28.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

29.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

30.

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

Butler, Samuel

31.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

32.

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

Lappe, Frances Moore

33.

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

Hubbard, Kin

34.

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

Connolly, Cyril

35.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

36.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

37.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

38.

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

39.

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

Hackett, Buddy

40.

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

41.

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

Charles II

42.

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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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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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

45.

A store of grain, Oh king is the best of treasures. A gem put in your mouth will not support life.

Hitopadesa

46.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

47.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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To eat is to appropriate by destruction.