Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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

Charles II

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

Lancaster, Burt

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Allen, Woody

10.

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

Morley, Christopher

11.

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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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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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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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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Most of us are either too think to enjoy eating, or too fat to enjoy walking.

Howe, Edgar Watson

16.

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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To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

18.

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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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

20.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

21.

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

Twain, Mark

23.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

24.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

25.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Proverb, Hebrew

27.

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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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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Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

30.

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

Hubbard, Kin

31.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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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

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A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

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

Hackett, Buddy

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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

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

Proverb, English

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We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

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

Saadi

48.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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