Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

- Montesquieu, Charles De

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

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

Miller, Henry

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

Lancaster, Burt

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

Proverb, French

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

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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 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

12.

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

Proverb, English

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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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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Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

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We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

21.

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

Kurnitz, Harry

23.

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

Charles II

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

Bible

25.

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

Cato The Elder

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

Santayana, George

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Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Catalan

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Hubbard, Kin

33.

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

Collier, William

34.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

Beard, James

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

Maximus, Tyrius

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

Proverb, Turkish

40.

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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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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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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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.