Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

Best Quotes about Food and eating

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

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

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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''

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.

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

Proverb, Catalan

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

Maximus, Tyrius

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

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

Kurnitz, Harry

10.

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

Twain, Mark

11.

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

Hubbard, Kin

12.

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.

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

Santayana, George

15.

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

Proverb, English

16.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

17.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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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

19.

Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and the reason they don't get fat is that they maintain a profligate level of calorie expenditure. The very same people whose evenings begin with melted goats cheese... get up at dawn to run, break for a mid-morning aerobics class, and watch the evening news while racing on a stationary bicycle.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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.

21.

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

Miller, Henry

22.

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

23.

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

24.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

25.

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

26.

I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning.

Barrymore, John

27.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

28.

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

Allen, Woody

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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

30.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

31.

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

Morley, Christopher

32.

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

33.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

34.

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

35.

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

36.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

37.

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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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

39.

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

Proverb, French

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

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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

44.

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

Beard, James

45.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

46.

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

Connolly, Cyril

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God comes to the hungry in the form of food.