Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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.

The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth.

Lappe, Frances Moore

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

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

Vries, Peter De

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

10.

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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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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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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Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Allen, Woody

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

Lebowitz, Fran

17.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

18.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

19.

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

Connolly, Cyril

20.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

21.

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

Kurnitz, Harry

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Saadi

25.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Socrates

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God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

29.

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

Twain, Mark

31.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

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A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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