Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Orbach, Susie

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

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

Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities and the fountain of all our diseases. As fire extinguished by an excess of fuel, so is the natural health of the body destroyed by an intemperate diet.

Burton

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

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

Maximus, Tyrius

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

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.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

10.

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

Hubbard, Kin

11.

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

Morley, Christopher

14.

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

15.

When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.

Euripides

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

Socrates

19.

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

Hitopadesa

20.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

21.

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

Lappe, Frances Moore

23.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

24.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

25.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

26.

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

27.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

28.

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

Kurnitz, Harry

29.

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

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

Cato The Elder

32.

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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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

34.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

35.

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

Miller, Henry

36.

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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A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

38.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Beard, James

40.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

41.

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

Allen, Woody

42.

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

Proverb, Catalan

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

Proverb, Hebrew

45.

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

46.

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

Orbach, Susie

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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

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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

49.

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

Charles II

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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