Eating Quotes
I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in fourteen days I lost two weeks
Joe E. Lewis
We're the country that has more food to eat than any other country in the world, and with more diets to keep us from eating it.
UNknown
Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us
Peter De Vries
They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.
Juvenal
The majority of those who put together collections of verses or epigrams resemble those who eat cherries or oysters: they begin by choosing the best and end by eating everything.
Nicolas Chamfort
No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.
Christopher Morley
The directors of Synthank were eating an enormous luncheon to celebrate the launching of their new product. Some of them wore the plastic face-masks popular at the time. All were elegantly slender, despite the rich food and drink they were putting away. Their wives were elegantly slender, despite the food and drink they too were putting away. An earlier and less sophisticated generation would have regarded them as beautiful people, apart from their eyes.
Brian Wilson Aldiss
In eating, a third of the stomach should be filled with food, a third with drink and the rest left empty.
Talmud
Flesh-eating by humans is unnecessary, irrational, anatomically unsound, unhealthy, unhygienic, uneconomic, unaesthetic, unkind and unethical. May I elaborate?
HELEN NEARING
Vegetarians, dropping meat, tend to fill up with too much starch. This leaves them no more healthy than meat-eaters, with constipation, indigestion, colds, catarrhs, coughs and chest complaints to plague them. Eating sparingly of breads, cakes, crackers, cookies, macaroni, spaghetti, anything largely starch, is a far step on the road to good health
HELEN NEARING
I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other.
Henry David Thoreau
Heart attacks... God's revenge for eating his little animal friends.
Anonymous
My situation is a solemn one. Life is offered to me on condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than cannibalism. My will contains directions for my funeral, which will be followed not by mourning coaches, but by oxen, sheep, flocks of poultry, and a small traveling aquarium of live fish, all wearing white scarfs in honor of the man who perished rather than eat his fellow creatures
George Bernard Shaw
