Quotes about Eating

Gustave Flaubert

Novelist

Me and my books in the same apartment, like a gherkin in its vinegar.

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Hippocrates

Writer, Scientist, Greek physician

Positive health requires a knowledge of man's primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known. The combination of these two things makes regimen, when proper attention is given to the season of the year, the changes of the wind, the age of the individual, and the situation of his home. If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will fall sick.

Age - Constitution - Eating - Effectiveness - Enough - Exercise - Fall - Giving - Home - Human - Individual - Knowledge - Man - Seasons - Sickness

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Robert Kiyosaki

Writer, Author, Investor

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don't eat. And I like to eat.

Business - Eating - Investment

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Vincent Van Gogh

Businessman, Artist, Painter

Since visiting the abatoirs of S. France I have stopped eating meat.

Eating - Meat

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Rumi

Actress, Poet, Poet

Love is the Water of Life Everything other than love for the most beautiful God is agony of the spirit, though it be sugar- eating. What is agony of the spirit? To advance toward death without seizing hold of the Water of Life.

Eating - Life - Seize - Spirits - Water

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Thomas Hardy

Judge, Novelist, Novelist

There's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.

Eating - Friendliness - Music

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Simon Sinek

Historian, Author, Author

I don't enjoy eating humble pie; it never tastes good. But I do appreciate it when it happens.

Eating - Enjoying - Good - Humility - Taste

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Richard Dawkins

Producer, Scientist, Ethologist

On one planet [earth], and possibly only one planet in the entire universe, molecules that would normally make nothing more complicated than a chunk of rock, gather themselves together into chunks of rock-sized matter of such staggering complexity that they are capable of running, jumping, swimming, flying, seeing, hearing, capturing and eating other such animated chunks of complexity; capable in some cases of thinking and feeling, and falling in love with yet other chunks of complex matter.

Earth - Eating - Fall - Feelings - Flying - Hearing - Planet - Swimming - Thinking - Together - Universe

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Mata Amritanandamayi

Spiritual leader

While eating, our attention should not be focused just on the taste. Imagine our chosen deity or guru is present within us and that we are feeding Him. This will turn eating into a spiritual practice.

Eating - Food - Guru - Imagination - Practice - Spiritual - Taste

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Richard Dawkins

Producer, Scientist, Ethologist

[R]eductionism' is one of those things, like sin, that is only mentioned by people who are against it. To call oneself a reductionist will sound, in some circles, a bit like admitting to eating babies. But, just as nobody actually eats babies, so nobody is really a reductionist in any sense worth being against.

Baby - Eating - Oneself - People - Sin - Sound

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Neil Gaiman

Author, Screenwriter

And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it.

Eating - Opinion - Trouble - Worth

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Anais Nin

Writer

the best way to remember a beautiful city or a beautiful painting is to eat something while you are looking at it. The flavor really helps the image to penetrate the body. It fixes it as lacquer does a drawing.

Eating - Flavors - Help - Painting - Remembering

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Ramana Maharshi

Leader, Philosopher,

Eating, bathing, going to the toilet, talking, thinking, and many other activities related to the body are all work. How is it that the performance of one particular act is alone (considered) work? To be still is to be always engaged in work. To be silent is to be always talking.

Activity - Eating - Engagement - Performance - Silence - Talk - Thinking

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Vincent Van Gogh

Businessman, Artist, Painter

I am working with the enthusiasm of a man from Marseilles eating bouillabaisse, which shouldn't come as a surprise to you because I am busy painting huge sunflowers.

Eating - Enthusiasm - Man - Painting - Surprise

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Gautama Buddha

Monk, Sage, Philosopher, Teacher, Religious Leader

But ...meat eating in any form, in any manner, and in any place is unconditionally and once and for all prohibited ...Meat eating I have not permitted to anyone, I do not permit, I will not permit.

Eating - Meat - Permission

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Roald Dahl

Novelist, Poet, Screenwriter

Pear Drops were exciting because they had a dangerous taste. All of us were warned against eating them, and the result was that we ate them more than ever.

Danger - Eating - Excitement - Having

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Maya Angelou

Poet, Singer, Writer, Civil Rights Activist

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

Crying - Death - Eating - Friendship - Laughing - Trial - Worrying

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

Athlete, Novelist, Novelist

That's just the point: an honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business goes on eating - and then he eats you up.

Eating - Honesty - Man - Sensitivity

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Jonathan Swift

Writer, Poet, Cleric

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

Eating

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Gautama Buddha

Monk, Sage, Philosopher, Teacher, Religious Leader

From eating meat arrogance is born, from arrogance erroneous imaginations issue, and from imagination is born greed; and for this reason refrain from eating meat.

Arrogance - Buddhism - Eating - Greed - Imagination - Meat - Reason

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