Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

- Jefferson, Thomas

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Charles II

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

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.

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

Proverb, English

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

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.

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

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

10.

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

Proverb, Turkish

11.

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

Twain, Mark

12.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

13.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Miller, Henry

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We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, French

28.

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

Collier, William

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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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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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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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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 judge a restaurant by the bread and by the coffee.

Lancaster, Burt

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

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

Kurnitz, Harry

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God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Socrates

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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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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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To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

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

Proverb, Hebrew