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

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

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

Proverb, English

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Hackett, Buddy

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.

Byron, Lord

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Charles II

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

Proverb, French

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A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

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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.

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To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

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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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A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Beard, James

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

Proverb, Turkish

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Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

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

Allen, Woody

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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

Cato The Elder

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

Socrates

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

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Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

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

Euripides

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Kurnitz, Harry

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God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Maximus, Tyrius

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

Orwell, George