Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Morley, Christopher

Best Quotes about Food and eating

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

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

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

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

Barrymore, John

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Maximus, Tyrius

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

Bible

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

Proverb, Turkish

10.

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

Proverb, English

11.

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

Kurnitz, Harry

12.

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

Charles II

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To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Beard, James

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I judge a restaurant by the bread and by the coffee.

Lancaster, Burt

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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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To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

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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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Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

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Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

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

Butler, Samuel

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Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

39.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Santayana, George

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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.