Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

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

The food here is so tasteless you could eat a meal of it and belch and it wouldn't remind you of anything.

Foxx, Redd

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

Lancaster, Burt

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

Orwell, George

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

Hitopadesa

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

Euripides

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

10.

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

Proverb, English

11.

It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.

Gilbert, W. S.

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

Proverb, Turkish

13.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

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

Proverb, French

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

Woolf, Virginia

18.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Connolly, Cyril

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We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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

Socrates

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Beard, James

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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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Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

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Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

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

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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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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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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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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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God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Kurnitz, Harry

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

Hackett, Buddy

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It is the mark of a mean, vulgar and ignoble spirit to dwell on the thought of food before meal times or worse to dwell on it afterwards, to discuss it and wallow in the remembered pleasures of every mouthful. Those whose minds dwell before dinner on the spit, and after on the dishes, are fit only to be scullions.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Saadi

45.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

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

Charles II

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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