Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

He who eats alone chokes alone.

- Proverb, Arabian

Best Quotes about Food and eating

I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning.

Barrymore, John

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.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Kurnitz, Harry

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

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

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

Saadi

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

Vries, Peter De

10.

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

11.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

13.

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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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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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

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A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

17.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

18.

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

Santayana, George

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

Hitopadesa

21.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

22.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Miller, Henry

25.

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

Collier, William

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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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One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Beard, James

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Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

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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

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

Euripides

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Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

35.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

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We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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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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He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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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

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

Proverb, English

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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.