Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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''

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

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

Twain, Mark

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Proverb, French

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

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

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

Beard, James

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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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The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.

Butler, Samuel

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

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The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

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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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We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Barrymore, John

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

Socrates

23.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

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Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

25.

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.

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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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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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Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Cato The Elder

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Kurnitz, Harry

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

Proverb, English

34.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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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 to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Collier, William

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

Santayana, George

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A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

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