Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Charles II

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

Maximus, Tyrius

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

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

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

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

Beard, James

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

Vries, Peter De

10.

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Bible

20.

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

21.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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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

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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

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

Hubbard, Kin

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To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Proverb, English

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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

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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

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Lebowitz, Fran

32.

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

Morley, Christopher

33.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

34.

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

Kurnitz, Harry

35.

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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We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Miller, Henry

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Lancaster, Burt

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

41.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

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

Proverb, French

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

Collier, William

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A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Proverb, Catalan

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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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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