Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

- Sartre, Jean-Paul

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Hackett, Buddy

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

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

Euripides

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

Maximus, Tyrius

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Allen, Woody

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

10.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

11.

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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One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

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

Hitopadesa

14.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

15.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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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A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

21.

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

Proverb, French

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Kurnitz, Harry

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Lancaster, Burt

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

Saadi

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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 to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Orwell, George

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

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

Santayana, George

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

Socrates

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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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Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Vries, Peter De

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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

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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 is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.