Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Proverb, English

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

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

Saadi

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

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

Proverb, English

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

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

Hubbard, Kin

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Hitopadesa

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

Twain, Mark

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

Socrates

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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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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We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Orwell, George

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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It ain't what you eat, but the way how you chew it.

Mcclinton, Delbert

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Maximus, Tyrius

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

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We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Charles II

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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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Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

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

Kurnitz, Harry

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A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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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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Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Vries, Peter De

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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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Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Lancaster, Burt

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Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Cato The Elder

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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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A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.