Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

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.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Santayana, George

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

Proverb, French

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

10.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Barrymore, John

18.

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

Orwell, George

19.

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

20.

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

Orbach, Susie

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Connolly, Cyril

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Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

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

Beard, James

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

Proverb, Catalan

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Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

31.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

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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

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

Hackett, Buddy

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Twain, Mark

42.

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

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

Kurnitz, Harry

44.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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 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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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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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