Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Schwarzenegger, Arnold

Best Quotes about Food and eating

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Cato The Elder

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

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

Euripides

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

Barrymore, John

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

Lancaster, Burt

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

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

Santayana, George

10.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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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He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Twain, Mark

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The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

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

Socrates

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One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

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

Charles II

21.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

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

Connolly, Cyril

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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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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

27.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

28.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Morley, Christopher

31.

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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Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

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

Kurnitz, Harry

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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

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

Beard, James

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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.

40.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

41.

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

Proverb, French

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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.

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

Lappe, Frances Moore

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

Allen, Woody

47.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

49.

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

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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