Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Food and eating

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

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

Morley, Christopher

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

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

Lebowitz, Fran

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Saadi

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

Kurnitz, Harry

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

10.

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

11.

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

Hitopadesa

12.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

13.

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.

14.

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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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''

16.

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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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

18.

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

Vries, Peter De

19.

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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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

21.

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

Collier, William

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Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

23.

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

24.

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

Proverb, Turkish

25.

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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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.

27.

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

Beard, James

28.

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

Hackett, Buddy

29.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Twain, Mark

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

Cato The Elder

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Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.