Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

Lunch is for wimps.

- Stone, Oliver

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Hitopadesa

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

Kurnitz, Harry

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

Maximus, Tyrius

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Orwell, George

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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

Orbach, Susie

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

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

10.

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

Charles II

11.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

12.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Put a knife to thy throat, if you're a man given to appetite.

Bible

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Beard, James

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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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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 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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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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To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Proverb, French

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

Euripides

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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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Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Saadi

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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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One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

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