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

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

Hubbard, Kin

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

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

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

Proverb, French

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

Lancaster, Burt

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Vries, Peter De

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

10.

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

11.

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

Hitopadesa

12.

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

Allen, Woody

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

Proverb, Hebrew

14.

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

15.

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

Orbach, Susie

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

Gilbert, W. S.

21.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

22.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

Proverb, Catalan

24.

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

Miller, Henry

25.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

26.

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

27.

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

Barrymore, John

28.

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

29.

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

Socrates

30.

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

Hackett, Buddy

31.

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

32.

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

Orwell, George

33.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

34.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

35.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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

37.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

38.

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

Santayana, George

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God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Charles II

41.

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

42.

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

Beard, James

43.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Proverb, Turkish

47.

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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

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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