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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• If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart.

  Cesar Chavez

  Love, Food, Heart

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• I don't stop eating when I'm full. The meal isn't over when I'm full. It's over when I hate myself.

  Louis C. K.

  Hate, Food, Comedian

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• He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

  Samuel Johnson

  Motivational, Fitness, Food

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 1, p. 467 (5 August 1763)

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• Do the small things of life with a relaxed awareness. When you are eating, eat totally - chew totally, taste totally, smell totally. Touch your bread, feel the texture. Smell the bread, smell the flavor. Chew it, let it dissolve into your being.

  Rajneesh

  Smell, Touching, Texture

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• I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.

  Paul Simon

  Mother, Children, Eggs

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• If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Life, Change, Happiness

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Life, Drinking

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• To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

  Edmund Burke

  Reading, Book, Thinking

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• Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.

  Barbra Streisand

  Success, Congratulations, Ice Cream

  Quoted in Life, 20 Sept. 1963

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• The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.

  George McGovern

  War, Cancer, Political

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• When you look around at the six people that you spend the most time with, that's who you are. I think that in making those decisions in who you are going to be married to, who your friends are going to be, those are really huge, critical, life decisions. Who gets to talk to you everyday, is almost like the food that you eat. It is a very huge critical situation to choose who the people are that you are spending your life with, spending your time with and who you are choosing to give your love and everything to.

  Will Smith

  Love, Life, Friends

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• When eating an elephant take one bite at a time.

  Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.

  Elephants, Bites

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am inclined to think that eating is a private thing and should be done alone, like other bodily functions.

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner

  Thinking, Done, Should

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1967). “Myself”, Harvill Secker

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• Number one, I absolutely love making chocolate chip cookies. I mean, it's fun. It's exciting. Beyond the fact that I love making them, I love eating them.

  Debbi Fields

  Fun, Mean, Numbers

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• My career is pretty much over. I'm out in the Valley eating soft-boiled eggs.

  Tim Conway

  Eggs, Careers, Valleys

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• Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time.

  Paul Dickson

  Elephants, Advice, Abram

  Paul Dickson (2014). “The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to Help You Cope with Crises, Deadlines, Bad Luck, Rude Behavior, Red Tape, and Attacks by Inanimate Objects”, p.1, Courier Corporation

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• Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow.
  [Lat., Festo die si quid prodegeris,
  Profesto egere liceat nisi peperceris.]

  Plautus

  Morrow, Dies

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