Eating Quotes

• To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Fitness, Art, Food

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• Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

  Voltaire

  Drinking, Food, Godly

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

  Virginia Woolf

  Love, Food, Sleep

  1929 A Room of One's Own, ch.1.

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• One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.

  Luciano Pavarotti

  Funny Inspirational, Food, Eating Good

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• You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

  Ronald Reagan

  Food, Character, Patriotic

  In New York Times 15 Jan. 1981

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• It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Summer, Food, Garden

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• If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

  Orson Welles

  Funny, Life, Girlfriend

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.

  Julia Child

  Funny, Food, Vegetables

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• Eating people is wrong...

  Michael Flanders

  Ice Cream, People

  "Song: The Reluctant Cannibal (At the Drop of a Hat)". 1956.

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• People should try eating no animal products for just one day a week.

  Casey Affleck

  Animal, Ice Cream, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I hate a man who swallows [his food], affecting not to know what he is eating. I suspect his taste in higher matters.

  Charles Lamb

  Hate, Men, Matter

  "Charles Lamb: Selected Writings".

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• Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

  Socrates

  Food, Weight Loss, Healthy Habits

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• Some people are willing to pay the price and it's the same with staying healthy or eating healthy. There's some discipline involved. There's some sacrifices.

  Mike Ditka

  Stay Strong, Sacrifice, Pay The Price

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• Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.

  Helen Rowland

  Marriage, Spring, Hands

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• The food you eat can either be the safest and most powerful form of medicine, or the slowest form of poison

  Ann Wigmore

  Motivational, Powerful, Food

  Ann Wigmore (1984). “The Hippocrates Diet and Health Program”, p.9, Penguin

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• Good food is a right, not a privilege. It brings children into a positive relationship with their health, community and environment.

  Alice Waters

  Children, Food, Health

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• I was not created to be occupied by eating delicious foods like tied up cattle.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Cattle, Delicious Food, Tied Up

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• Our society's strong emphasis on dieting and self-image can sometimes lead to eating disorders. We know that more than 5 million Americans suffer from eating disorders, most of them young women.

  Tipper Gore

  Strong Women, Self, Suffering

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Sitting at the table doesn’t make you a diner, unless you eat some of what’s on that plate. Being here in America doesn’t make you an American. Being born here in America doesn’t make you an American.

  Malcolm X

  America, History, Sitting

  "The Ballot or the Bullet". Malcolm X's Speech at Cory Methodist Church, Cleveland, Ohio, teachingamericanhistory.org. April 3, 1964.

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• You've got bad eating habits if you use a grocery cart in 7-Eleven.

  Dennis Miller

  Funny, Humor, Use

  Dennis Miller (2011). “Ranting Again”, p.83, Main Street Books

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• I have been told my eating habits are absolutely bizarre. But I don't think so.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Thinking, Habit

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• It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.

  Beatrix Potter

  Too Much, Said, Lettuce

  Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies (1909) p. 9

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• Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Work, Food, Inspiration

  Igor Stravinsky “An Autobiography”, Library of Alexandria

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• Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Food, Talking, Cooking

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• Zac Efron would make us feel guilty for eating big dinners. He'd say, 'Do you really want to eat those carbs?' It was like, 'Thanks a lot!'

  Ashley Tisdale

  Want, Dinner, Thanks

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