Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Maximus, Tyrius

Best Quotes about Food and eating

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

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

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.

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

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

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

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

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

10.

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

Proverb, Catalan

11.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

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

Bible

16.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Socrates

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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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One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, English

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

Lancaster, Burt

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

Kurnitz, Harry

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

Maximus, Tyrius

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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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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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Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

31.

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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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 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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To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Orbach, Susie

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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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Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the endless quest for new taste sensations. Now they are a little like those desperate junkies who have tried every known drug and are finally reduced to mainlining toilet bowl cleanser in an effort to get still higher.

Bryson, Bill

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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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Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

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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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Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Twain, Mark

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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.