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

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Charles II

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

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

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

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

Proverb, French

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

10.

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

Lappe, Frances Moore

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

13.

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

Proverb, Turkish

15.

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

16.

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

Kurnitz, Harry

17.

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

18.

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

Santayana, George

19.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

20.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

21.

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

Euripides

23.

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

Socrates

25.

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.

26.

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

Saadi

27.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

28.

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

Proverb, Catalan

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

Butler, Samuel

30.

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

Beard, James

31.

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

Allen, Woody

32.

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

Orbach, Susie

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

Miller, Henry

34.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

35.

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

Hitopadesa

36.

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

Collier, William

37.

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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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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Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

40.

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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Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

42.

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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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

44.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

45.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Proverb, Hebrew

48.

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

49.

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

50.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.