Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

Best Quotes about Food and eating

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

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

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

Proverb, French

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

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

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Twain, Mark

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

10.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

11.

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

12.

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

Lancaster, Burt

13.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

14.

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

Lappe, Frances Moore

15.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

16.

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

Miller, Henry

17.

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

Proverb, Catalan

18.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

19.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

20.

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

21.

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

Santayana, George

22.

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''

24.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

25.

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

Charles II

26.

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

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

Butler, Samuel

29.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

30.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

31.

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.

32.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Proverb, English

36.

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

Saadi

37.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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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

41.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

42.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

43.

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

Hitopadesa

44.

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

Allen, Woody

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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

46.

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

Proverb, Turkish

47.

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

Orbach, Susie

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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

49.

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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Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss