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

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

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

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

Collier, William

Edible. Good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Vries, Peter De

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

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Connolly, Cyril

10.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

11.

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

Allen, Woody

12.

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

Santayana, George

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Lancaster, Burt

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God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

18.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

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

Beard, James

20.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

21.

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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He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

23.

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

Morley, Christopher

24.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

25.

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

Twain, Mark

26.

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.

27.

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

28.

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

29.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

31.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

32.

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

Orbach, Susie

33.

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.

34.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

35.

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

Proverb, English

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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

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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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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

39.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.