Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Orwell, George

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Lappe, Frances Moore

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

Beard, James

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''

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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

Morley, Christopher

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

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

11.

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

Socrates

12.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

13.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

14.

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

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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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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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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

18.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

19.

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

20.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

Cato The Elder

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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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To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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

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God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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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.

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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

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

Charles II

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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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Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Barrymore, John

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

Kurnitz, Harry

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To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

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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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A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

41.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Orbach, Susie

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