Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it.

- Schwarzenegger, Arnold

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Lancaster, Burt

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

10.

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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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

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There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison.

Goodman, Paul

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Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Santayana, George

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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

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Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

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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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You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread.

Miller, Henry

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A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

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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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Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

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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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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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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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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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A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

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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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We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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

Saadi

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

Twain, Mark

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

Collier, William

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

Proverb, Catalan

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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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We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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

Orwell, George