Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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

Lebowitz, Fran

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

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

Beard, James

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.

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

Lancaster, Burt

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

10.

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

Saadi

11.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

14.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

15.

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

Woolf, Virginia

16.

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

Hackett, Buddy

17.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

18.

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

Collier, William

19.

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

20.

It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.

Gilbert, W. S.

21.

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

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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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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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One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

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

Proverb, French

27.

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

Hubbard, Kin

28.

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

29.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

30.

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

Allen, Woody

31.

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

Orwell, George

32.

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

Cato The Elder

33.

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

34.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

35.

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

36.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

37.

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

38.

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

Vries, Peter De

40.

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

42.

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

Hitopadesa

43.

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

Proverb, Catalan

44.

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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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

46.

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

Barrymore, John

47.

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

Connolly, Cyril

48.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

49.

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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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De