Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Proverb, English

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Proverb, Catalan

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

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

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

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

Collier, William

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

10.

A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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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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Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

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

Proverb, Hebrew

15.

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

Butler, Samuel

16.

Put a knife to thy throat, if you're a man given to appetite.

Bible

17.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

18.

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

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

Orwell, George

20.

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

21.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

24.

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

Kurnitz, Harry

25.

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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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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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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Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

29.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

30.

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

Cato The Elder

32.

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

Lancaster, Burt

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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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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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

Saadi

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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

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He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

46.

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

Socrates

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Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

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To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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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