Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Cato The Elder

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Proverb, French

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

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

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Lappe, Frances Moore

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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''

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

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart, who looks at her watch.

Beard, James

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

Kurnitz, Harry

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

Miller, Henry

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The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Cato The Elder

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

Lancaster, Burt

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

Charles II

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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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Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

Socrates

31.

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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One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

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We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

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God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

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

Proverb, English

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Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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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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A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

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Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

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

Allen, Woody

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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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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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A store of grain, Oh king is the best of treasures. A gem put in your mouth will not support life.

Hitopadesa

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Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph