Top 100 Never Eat Sayings

#1. Full disclosure: I've never read 'Eat Pray Love,' nor have I even seen the movie.

Kelvin Yu

#2. I do not eat breakfast. i never eat breakfast. I haven't eaten breakfast since I was able to walk out the back door without eating breakfast first.

David Levithan

#3. Her solitary nature means she needs a family to keep her from loneliness my gregarious nature means I will never have to worry about being alone ...

Elizabeth Gilbert

#4. I can't. I'm not a good influence on him. I keep getting him shot. I swear too much, I don't brush my teeth every time I go to bed, and I never remember to eat a balanced breakfast. You want someone with culture. Poise. A lack of gunfire.
-Toby

Seanan McGuire

#5. Nothing to do but work, Nothing to eat but food, Nothing to wear out but clothes, To keep one from going nude.

Benjamin Franklin King Jr.

#6. I don't snack. I don't generally eat sweets or drink soda. I never eat between meals or even before big ones.

Anthony Bourdain

#7. never, never, ever force the patient to eat, as it will do them more harm than good, even though your intentions for their well-being are sincere and honorable.

Bob Mcdowell

#8. If you never leave me, I won't eat your stuff. - Belle, Dog Only Knows

Terry Kaye

#9. It's never too late to start eating well. A good diet can reverse many of those conditions as well. In short: change the way you eat and you can transform your health for the better.

T. Colin Campbell

#10. I could never stop eating meat ... I'm not a good person to talk about diets. If I had to only eat salads, I'd kill myself!

Izabel Goulart

#11. There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.

Abraham Lincoln

#12. Never eat broccoli when there are cameras around.

Michael Stipe

#13. I never have time to have a dinner. I have to eat while I'm memorizing lines. The only way to maintain energy is to eat all day long. I must eat all day long.

Zooey Deschanel

#14. The word indulgent has become a popular catchphrase for dishes we should not eat for health's sake. I never use it to describe food, only poor parenting.

Martha Hall Foose

#15. I go to Japan every November on vacation, and the one thing I never return home without is yuba, which is the thin skin that forms atop boiling soy milk. You skim it off and either eat it fresh or dry it.

Hanya Yanagihara

#16. Rather than making you never want to eat chicken again, it simply makes you angry. It makes you hold a grudge. You'll eat chicken again, by God, and you'll chew really, really hard.

David Rakoff

#17. Dagwood Bumstead was a great unrecognized hero of American literature. He showed up every day, he got knocked down every day, he never got to eat his sandwich every day, the dog jumped on him every day, his wife was giving him a hard time and he showed up every day.

James L. Brooks

#18. When I was 11 my friend's mom made a peanut butter sandwich. I ate the sandwich and was like, 'I'm never eating anything else again.' And I still eat peanut butter every day. I would put peanut butter on a steak.

Aasif Mandvi

#19. Judge Fang got to eat this way only when someone really important was trying to taint him, and though he had never knowingly allowed his judicial judgment to be swayed, he did enjoy the chow.

Neal Stephenson

#20. I want to see this country prosperous. I want to see people get a job. I want to see people get enough to eat. We have never made good on our promises.

Henry Morgenthau Jr.

#21. In the kitchen Valeria was making breakfast, his aunt never made breakfast even though Carlo insisted for years that a hotel hoping to cater to French and Americans must offer breakfast. "It's a lazy man's meal.", she always said. "What laggard expects to eat before doing any work?

Jess Walter

#22. People who eat potatoes will never be able to perform their abilities in whatever job they choose to have.

Richard Cobden

#23. The first time you see something that you have never seen before, you almost always know right away if you should eat it or run away from it.

Scott Adams

#24. She wouldn't disapprove of people who gave up philosophy or literary theory to do ordinary things." "Maybe not," mused Maggie. "If we eat pies, then we should never, not for one moment, look down on the making of them.

Alexander McCall Smith

#25. I never drink cow's milk; I always opt for the soya alternative, and when I eat most dairy products, it tends to be in extremely small doses. However, being a vegetarian means I have to get protein from somewhere, so I do eat eggs and cheese about once a week.

Kate O'Mara

#26. To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good. To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat a slice a watermelon in front of white people.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#27. I don't eat meat, fish, or eggs. I was never a big meat-eater, but I've got more energy now.

Shania Twain

#28. One time, my mother told me that I always eat like I'll never see food again. And I said, "I won't unless I bring it home." That shut her up.

Suzanne Collins

#29. I've spoken to Sid," she admits. "He says he's never seen Charlie so bad. He won't eat, he's lost weight and he looks terrible. Sid says it's the first time he's ever been so bored by him that he's considered smothering him.

Lily Morton

#30. She gave me a hug and for a second I was embraced by a body that makes me want to go home and never eat again.

Daniel Handler

#31. I had gotten a taste for death and found it palatable to the extent that I could never again eat the fruits of a normal civilization.

Mickey Spillane, Max Allan Collins

#32. You should beware of motherless children. They will eat you alive. You will never be loved by anyone the way that you will be loved by a motherless child.

Heather O'Neill

#33. For some stories, it's easy. The moral of 'The Three Bears,' for instance, is Never break into someone else's house.' The moral of 'Snow White' is 'Never eat apples.' The moral of World War I is 'Never assassinate Archduke Ferdinand.

Lemony Snicket

#34. Never eat in a place called 'Mom's'.

Nelson Algren

#35. Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.

Josh Billings

#36. I never think about age at all. I just think about what I eat.

David H. Murdock

#37. For we would no longer need any reminding that however we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of nature, not industry, and what we're eating is never anything more or less than the body of the world.

Michael Pollan

#38. American women. Why do you all want to be nearly invisible? Why not have a physical presence in the world? Women should have curves, not angles ... One should never confuse fashionable with beautiful ... Eat. Be happy to have curves. A presence.

Beth Fantaskey

#39. I speak as your native guide to the mysterious tribe called the English. Dress code is everything. You can be a card-carrying Nazi, you can pay gigolos to eat gnocchi out of your navel and you won't be pilloried
as long as you never, ever wear linen with tweed.

Kathy Lette

#40. Never trust a woman who doesn't like to eat. She is probably lousy in bed.

Federico Fellini

#41. Oh I love children, but I could never eat a whole one.

Zach Braff

#42. This Bouillabaisse a noble dish is - A sort of soup or broth, or brew, Or hotchpotch of all sorts of fishes, That Greenwich never could outdo; Green herbs, red peppers, mussels, saffron, Soles, onions, garlic, roach, and dace; All these you eat at Terre's tavern, In that one dish of Bouillabaisse.

William Makepeace Thackeray

#43. I never really liked meat. I was a child that had to be forced to eat my meat. Whatever you ate before that you loved like turkey slices they've got a substitute now that's not hard to find.

Masta Killa

#44. Never call yourself a philosopher, nor talk a great deal among the unlearned about theorems, but act conformably to them. Thus, at an entertainment, don't talk how persons ought to eat, but
eat as you ought. For remember that in this manner Socrates also universally avoided all ostentation.

Epictetus

#45. Her head is full of bubbles, her nose is petite, she looks like she never gets nothing to eat.

Frank Zappa

#46. He looked the boy up and down as if he had never seen a child before and wasn't quite sure what he was supposed to do with one: eat it, ignore it or kick it down the stairs.

John Boyne

#47. What do you think? Young women of rank eat - you will never guess what - garlick!

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#48. Never in my life had I seen such a slim nothing of a figure eat like such a terror.

Haruki Murakami

#49. This is now your daily bread. It will never be withheld from you. You may eat as much and as often as you like. There is no end to My love.

Rick Joyner

#50. TV cameras seem to add ten pounds to me. So I make it a policy never to eat TV cameras.

Kitty Carlisle

#51. I eat once a day if I remember, and I try never to go to sleep.

Richie Havens

#52. Incoming Text: Bert will be so disappointed. He had down that Canon would eat you alive by last night. Note to self: Never bet against Bert.

Qwen Salsbury

#53. Do not listen to the killjoys who tell you never to eat oysters in months that do not contain the letter R: May, June, July, August, Octoba. You know.

John Hodgman

#54. I don't have any concerns about my weight. I've always been healthy. I eat right. I'm just a big dude. I've always been happy with the person I am. So that will never change.

Ruben Studdard

#55. I either eat too much or starve myself. Sleep for 14 hours or have insomniac nights. Fall in love very hard or hate passionately. I don't know what grey is. I never did.

Anais Nin

#56. I don't normally cook, but if I did it probably would be beans, sausage, bacon and eggs. I never really get to eat that to be honest.

Wayne Rooney

#57. I will never understand why they cook on TV. I can't smell it. Can't eat it. Can't taste it. The end of the show they hold it up to the camera, 'Well, here it is. You can't have any. Thanks for watching. Goodbye.'

Jerry Seinfeld

#58. Is it better not to drink alcohol and eat fried food and not have cheese and never have a cigarette at a party? Of course, but that's just not life.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#59. I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this.
[Cormac McCarthy's Venomous Fiction, New York Times, April 19, 1992]

Cormac McCarthy

#60. I've never been on a date before," Isabella said to Mary as she got ready that night.
"You've been on plenty of dates," Mary said.
"No," Isabella said. "I've been out to eat with boys who were my boyfriend, but that's not dating. That's just parelle eating.

Jennifer Close

#61. Two hungry people should never make friends. If they do, they eat each other up. It is the same with one person who is hungry and another who is full: they cannot be real, real friends because the hungry one will eat the full one. You understand?

Helen Oyeyemi

#62. When my family did shy away from Indian food, we'd eat a lot of Chinese. We'd use the wok a lot. I never had a problem with Brussels sprouts or broccoli growing up. I always grew up with the mentality of finishing your plate.

Parvesh Cheena

#63. This day will never come again and anyone who fails to eat and drink and taste and smell it will never have it offered to him again in all eternity. The sun will never shine as it does today ... But you must play your part and sing a song, one of your best.

Hermann Hesse

#64. I've never dieted in my life; I like food too much. I'm just thoughtful about what I eat, and I'm lucky that I love the taste of vegetables. I'm certainly not 'actress skinny,' and I never will be. I'm strong, and my body works great for me.

Sarah McLachlan

#65. Never expect people to understand, respect or love you , they are just a bunch of dirty flesh and fake skins. Staring to eat you when you are fat enough.

M.F. Moonzajer

#66. If there are three things I've learned in my time among the fey, they are this: don't eat anything you're offered in Faeryland, don't go swimming in quiet little ponds and never, ever, make a bargain with anyone.

Julie Kagawa

#67. Searching for fish, cook them, eat them. They're gone. Yet, writing is never gone although the writer died.

Pilo Poly

#68. Being rich isn't about money. Being rich is a state of mind. Some of us, no matter how much money we have, will never be free enough to take time to stop and eat the heart of the watermelon. And some of us will be rich without ever being more than a paycheck ahead of the game.

Harvey MacKay

#69. I'm no longer young as I was, but I can tell you this, you never say no to the opportunity to piss, to eat, or to get half an hour's shut-eye. You follow me?

Neil Gaiman

#70. Never eat a light source

Count Arthur Strong

#71. The fruit that you eat will never taste as beautiful as the fruit that I ate during the turmoil of war. You will never cherish it as much as I do.

Li Ka-shing

#72. All things here appear to me to trudge on in one and the same round: we rise in the morning that we may eat breakfast, dinner andsupper and to bed again that we may get up the next morning and do the same: so that you never saw two peas more alike than our yesterday and to-day.

Thomas Jefferson

#73. We would be a much healthier culture if the government had never told us how to eat.

Joel Salatin

#74. After I quit my band, I definitely was so full, like I'm so full I could never eat again. I had that kind of feeling where the elements, like the touring stuff, were harder for me and I definitely felt fine not experiencing it again.

Jason Schwartzman

#75. You like gator?"
"Never touch the stuff. I don't eat anything that could eat me. It screws with the food chain".

Stephen Randel

#76. Yeah you do. It's called get your ass registered and don't eat and litter. Rules are simple here," I said.
"I never really did care for rules. And I'm new, I don't know better.

Alyse M. Gardner

#77. If you must eat a banana in public, never make eye contact.

Darynda Jones

#78. Never eat more than you can lift.
Miss Piggy (Star of the Muppet Show)

Z. Altug

#79. I love magazines and film critics, so I eat it up. I'm not one of those people who says 'I never read anything.' I generally read all of it.

Judd Apatow

#80. Never ask a baker what went into a pie. Just eat.

George R R Martin

#81. You been shopping? no i been shopping. well what'd you buy? i bought a piston engine. well how you going to cook it? you don't cook it it's a piston engine! well your not going to eat it raw are you? oh, i never thought of that ...

Graham Chapman

#82. Why should any guy want to be only friends with a girl? It's like agreeing to be near a chocolate cake and never eat it. It's like sitting in a racing car but not driving it.

Chetan Bhagat

#83. If you come back to me, I'll never leave you", I whispered into the furry ear. "I'll make you all the pies you could ever eat.

Ilona Andrews

#84. I have a very, very healthy relationship with food in that I eat whatever I want, whenever I want. I never restrict quantities or types of food.

Portia De Rossi

#85. I had been invited to speak after the lunch. But I did not go to the table until the feast ended, as I never like to eat or talk before speaking.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#86. One of the key things I did to stay on my diet is I never allowed myself to get hungry. As soon as I got hungry, I'd eat healthy foods.

Stephen Furst

#87. We Sackett boys never killed anything we didn't need to eat unless it was coming at us. A mountain man tries to live with the country instead of against it.

Louis L'Amour

#88. One of my mottos for living is: never eat on a boat, unless you own the boat.

Jay Rayner

#89. In Hollywood, I'm obese. I'm considered a fat actress. I eat like a caveman. I'll be the only actress who doesn't have anorexia rumours! I'm never going to starve myself for a part. I'm invincible. I don't want little girls to be like, "Oh, I want to look like Katniss, so I'm going to skip dinner."

Jennifer Lawrence

#90. I have never seen someone so small eat so much in my life," Throll murmured.

Michael A. Rothman

#91. That is raw dough. Never eat raw dough. They can make worms in your tummy. Worms in your tummy.

Ryan Stiles

#92. In the afternoon, they stopped to eat on a rocky outcrop. Perry brushed a kiss on her cheek while she was chewing, and she learned that it was the loveliest thing to be kissed for no reason, even while chewing food. It brightened the woods, and the never sky, and everything.

Veronica Rossi

#93. I already knew to eat clean and listen to my body, to only eat when I was in a calm mental state. Everyone knew. But when you're fat in the head, it's never about knowing the answers. It's about living them.

Stephanie Klein

#94. Never eat spinach just before going on the air.

Dan Rather

#95. I never count calories, but I eat so well.

Alicia Silverstone

#96. I could EAT YOUR HEART & asshole you'd never know it.

Joyce Carol Oates

#97. It's being a grown up, which I never figured out how to do, scrubbing the tub, and remembering to eat and shampoo my hair. It's the basics: I can write a whole book, but I cannot handle the basics.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#98. I've never deprived myself of anything. I've always thought if you need to lose weight, carry on eating what you like, just eat less. I don't agree with doing without pasta or bread; it's too harsh.

Donna Air

#99. Never, my little one, hide anything from those that love you. Never let anything that makes itself a nest in your heart, grow into a secret, for then at once it will begin to eat a hole in it.

George MacDonald

#100. Let's examine what prize that is one more time; no more direct sunlight ever again, no more laughter. You get eternity, but you don't have the sense of humor to enjoy it! Also, vampires don't eat food. You never get to eat chocolate again. Ever. I'd rather die.

Justine Larbalestier

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