Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Santayana, George

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

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

It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.

Gilbert, W. S.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Orwell, George

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

Miller, Henry

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

Maximus, Tyrius

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

Twain, Mark

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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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.

11.

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

Woolf, Virginia

12.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

13.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

14.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

15.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

16.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

17.

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

Beard, James

18.

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

Proverb, English

19.

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Allen, Woody

23.

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

Charles II

24.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

25.

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

Socrates

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

Saadi

28.

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

Lappe, Frances Moore

29.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

30.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

31.

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

Orbach, Susie

32.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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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

34.

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

Kurnitz, Harry

35.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Santayana, George

37.

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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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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

40.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

41.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

42.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

43.

The soup is never hot enough if the waiter can keep his thumb in it.

Collier, William

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

Proverb, Catalan

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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

48.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

49.

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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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