Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

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

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

Hitopadesa

It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.

Cato The Elder

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

Proverb, French

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

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Proverb, English

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

Vries, Peter De

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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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Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Saadi

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

Maximus, Tyrius

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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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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 judge a restaurant by the bread and by the coffee.

Lancaster, Burt

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

24.

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

Orbach, Susie

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Woolf, Virginia

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One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Barrymore, John

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Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

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Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

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

Kurnitz, Harry

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To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

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

Socrates

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A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Santayana, George

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Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

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