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

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

Allen, Woody

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

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

Barrymore, John

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

Charles II

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

Collier, William

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

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

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

Morley, Christopher

10.

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.

11.

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

12.

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

Socrates

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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.

14.

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

Connolly, Cyril

15.

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

16.

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

17.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

18.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

19.

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

20.

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

Hackett, Buddy

21.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

22.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

23.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

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

Orwell, George

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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''

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

Cato The Elder

31.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

32.

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.

33.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

34.

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

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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

36.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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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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The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

39.

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

Twain, Mark

40.

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

Orbach, Susie

41.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

42.

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

Hitopadesa

43.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

44.

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

Beard, James

45.

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

Woolf, Virginia

46.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Proverb, Hebrew

49.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

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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