Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

- Montesquieu, Charles De

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Beard, James

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

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

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

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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

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

Proverb, French

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.

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

Charles II

10.

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

Bible

11.

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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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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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

14.

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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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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He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

17.

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

Barrymore, John

18.

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

Proverb, English

19.

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

Woolf, Virginia

20.

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

Kurnitz, Harry

21.

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

Hackett, Buddy

22.

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

Allen, Woody

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

25.

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

Miller, Henry

26.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

27.

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

Vries, Peter De

28.

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

29.

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

Hitopadesa

30.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

31.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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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

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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

34.

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Saadi

39.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

40.

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

41.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

42.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

43.

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

Cato The Elder

44.

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

Orbach, Susie

45.

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

Proverb, Turkish

46.

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

Proverb, Catalan

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A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

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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.

49.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

50.

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

Connolly, Cyril