Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it, or leave it.

Hackett, Buddy

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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''

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

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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

Santayana, George

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

Twain, Mark

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

Orwell, George

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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Saadi

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Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

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

Charles II

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Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Maximus, Tyrius

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A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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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Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Beard, James

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Proverb, French

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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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We know that every woman wants to be thin. Our images of womanhood are almost synonymous with thinness.

Orbach, Susie

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Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Proverb, English

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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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Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

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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

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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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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