Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

Much meat, much disease.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

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

Beard, James

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

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

Orbach, Susie

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

Connolly, Cyril

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Euripides

10.

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

Hubbard, Kin

11.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

12.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

13.

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

14.

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

Allen, Woody

15.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

16.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

17.

He who cannot eat horsemeat need not do so. Let him eat pork. But he who cannot eat pork, let him eat horsemeat. It's simply a question of taste.

Khrushchev, Nikita

18.

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

Butler, Samuel

19.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

20.

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

21.

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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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

23.

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

Proverb, French

24.

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

25.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

26.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

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

Vries, Peter De

28.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

29.

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

Hackett, Buddy

30.

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

31.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

32.

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

Woolf, Virginia

33.

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

Proverb, Turkish

34.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

35.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Santayana, George

39.

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

Saadi

40.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

41.

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

Collier, William

42.

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

Lancaster, Burt

43.

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

44.

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

Lappe, Frances Moore

45.

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

Proverb, English

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

Socrates

47.

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

48.

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

Bible

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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 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.