Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Proverb, Hebrew

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Socrates

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

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

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

Euripides

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

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead -- not sick, not wounded -- dead.

Allen, Woody

10.

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.

11.

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

Hackett, Buddy

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Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

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God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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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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Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

19.

The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth.

Lappe, Frances Moore

20.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Orbach, Susie

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Proverb, Catalan

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

Woolf, Virginia

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A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

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To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Saadi

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A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

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We seldom report of having eaten too little.

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

Proverb, English

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

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