Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

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.

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

Barrymore, John

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

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''

The soup is never hot enough if the waiter can keep his thumb in it.

Collier, William

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

10.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

11.

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

Proverb, Turkish

12.

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

Saadi

13.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

14.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

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

Maximus, Tyrius

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

Hitopadesa

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

Lancaster, Burt

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We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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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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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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

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

Charles II

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He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

30.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

31.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Beard, James

34.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Twain, Mark

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

45.

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

Cato The Elder

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

Kurnitz, Harry

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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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Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin