Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

- Montesquieu, Charles De

Best Quotes about Food and eating

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

Yogi ordered a pizza. The waitress asked How many pieces do you want your pie cut? Yogi responded, Four. I don't think I could eat eight.

Berra, Yogi

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

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Socrates

10.

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

Collier, William

11.

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

12.

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

13.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Kurnitz, Harry

18.

We know that every woman wants to be thin. Our images of womanhood are almost synonymous with thinness.

Orbach, Susie

19.

It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.

Cato The Elder

20.

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

21.

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

Hackett, Buddy

22.

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Allen, Woody

24.

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

Barrymore, John

25.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

26.

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

Proverb, French

28.

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

29.

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

Saadi

30.

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

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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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.

33.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

34.

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

Miller, Henry

35.

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

Connolly, Cyril

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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

37.

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

Proverb, English

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

Bible

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

Beard, James

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

Twain, Mark

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

Maximus, Tyrius

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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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He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

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