Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

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

Euripides

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

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

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

Proverb, English

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

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

Proverb, Turkish

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

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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Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

15.

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

Charles II

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

Santayana, George

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Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

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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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Baudrillard, Jean

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Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

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We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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 to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Lappe, Frances Moore

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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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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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The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

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

Kurnitz, Harry

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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