Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

Best Quotes about Food and eating

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Lappe, Frances Moore

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

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

Kurnitz, Harry

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

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Hackett, Buddy

10.

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

Orbach, Susie

11.

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

Euripides

12.

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

13.

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

14.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

15.

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

Proverb, English

16.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

17.

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

18.

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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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

20.

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

Twain, Mark

21.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

22.

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

Orwell, George

24.

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

Hubbard, Kin

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

28.

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

29.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

31.

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

32.

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

Vries, Peter De

35.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

36.

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

Morley, Christopher

37.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

38.

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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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

40.

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

Woolf, Virginia

41.

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

Lancaster, Burt

42.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

43.

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

Butler, Samuel

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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

46.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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

Proverb, French

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

Miller, Henry

49.

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

50.

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