Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

- Montesquieu, Charles De

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

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

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

Saadi

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

Proverb, French

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

Cato The Elder

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

Lancaster, Burt

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

Santayana, George

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

10.

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

Euripides

11.

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

Proverb, English

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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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We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

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

Socrates

18.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

19.

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

Collier, William

20.

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Butler, Samuel

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One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

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To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Maximus, Tyrius

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

Connolly, Cyril

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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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To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Charles II

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

Kurnitz, Harry

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A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

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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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Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth