Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

Much meat, much disease.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

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

Orwell, George

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Saadi

I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning.

Barrymore, John

The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth.

Lappe, Frances Moore

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

Santayana, George

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

Maximus, Tyrius

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

Morley, Christopher

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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

11.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

12.

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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Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

14.

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

Hackett, Buddy

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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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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.

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Lancaster, Burt

21.

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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The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.

Butler, Samuel

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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

24.

My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

25.

I told my doctor I get very tired when I go on a diet, so he gave me pep pills. Know what happened? I ate faster.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

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To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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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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Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

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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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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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Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Vries, Peter De

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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

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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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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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Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Allen, Woody

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

Charles II

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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