Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

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.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Allen, Woody

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

Collier, William

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

Saadi

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

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

Euripides

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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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Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

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

Lancaster, Burt

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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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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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A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

17.

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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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Proverb, English

21.

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

Orwell, George

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Proverb, French

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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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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That food has always been, and will continue to be, the basis for one of our greater snobbism does not explain the fact that the attitude toward the food choice of others is becoming more and more heatedly exclusive until it may well turn into one of those forms of bigotry against which gallant little committees are constantly planning campaigns in the cause of justice and decency.

Skinner, Cornelia Otis

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Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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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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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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

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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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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

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

Morley, Christopher

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To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

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