Quotes about food and eating

"The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake."

Proverb on food and eating   

"Seven's a banquet nine a brawl."

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"Much meat, much disease."

Proverb on food and eating   

"Hunger is a good cook."

Proverb on food and eating   

"Gluttony kills more than the sword."

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"He who eats alone chokes alone."

Proverb, Arabian on food and eating
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"It's better that it should make you sick than that you don't eat it at all."

Proverb, Catalan on food and eating   

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

Proverb, English on food and eating   

"A good meal ought to begin with hunger."

Proverb, French on food and eating   

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

Proverb, French on food and eating   

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

Proverb, Hebrew on food and eating   

"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 on food and eating   

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

Proverb, Turkish on food and eating
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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 on food and eating   

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

Saadi on food and eating   

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

Santayana, George on food and eating   

"To eat is to appropriate by destruction."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on food and eating   

"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 on food and eating   

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold on food and eating   

"There is no love sincerer than the love of food."

Shaw, George Bernard on food and eating
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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 on food and eating   

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

Socrates on food and eating
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"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 on food and eating   

"Lunch is for wimps."

Stone, Oliver on food and eating   

"I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also."

Thoreau, Henry David on food and eating   

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

Twain, Mark on food and eating   

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

Vries, Peter De on food and eating   

"Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast."

Wilde, Oscar on food and eating
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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 on food and eating   

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

Woolf, Virginia on food and eating
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"You get fat in the moments between when you know you should stop and when you do."

Lipsey, Michael on food and eating