Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Proverb, English

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

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

Santayana, George

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

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

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

Cato The Elder

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

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

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

10.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

11.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

12.

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

Proverb, Catalan

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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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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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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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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Allen, Woody

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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

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The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Collier, William

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

Charles II

25.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

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

Hackett, Buddy

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

Bible

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To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

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

Proverb, French

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

Euripides

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

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

Twain, Mark

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A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

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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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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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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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To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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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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A store of grain, Oh king is the best of treasures. A gem put in your mouth will not support life.

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