“The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul.”
The Bible (Proverbs 13:25)
SatisfactionContentment
Diet Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · DIET
Diet Quotes
Read 200 of the best diet quotes about healthy eating, moderation, food and wellness, from Benjamin Franklin, Seneca, Shakespeare, Brillat-Savarin and more.
“Use a little wine for thy stomach's sake.”
The Bible (1 Timothy 5:23)
DigestionModeration
“They are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.”
William Shakespeare
BalanceModeration
“Fat paunches have lean pates.”
William Shakespeare
OvereatingFunny
“Unquiet meals make ill digestions.”
William Shakespeare
Mindful EatingStress
“He hath eaten me out of house and home.”
William Shakespeare
Big AppetiteFunny
“I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit.”
William Shakespeare
Food And MoodFunny
“Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners.”
William Shakespeare
Self-CareWillpower
“A temperate diet was all her physic.”
Geoffrey Chaucer
ModerationNatural Health
“Well loved he garlic, onions, and eke leeks.”
Geoffrey Chaucer
VegetablesFunny
“A man's own observation, what he finds good of, and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health.”
Francis Bacon
Listening To Your BodyHealth
“To be free-minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat, and of sleep, and of exercise, is one of the best precepts of long lasting.”
Francis Bacon
WellnessLong Life
“He who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.”
Samuel Johnson
FoodFunny
“Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.”
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
You Are What You EatIdentity
“The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a star.”
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
CookingHappiness
“Animals feed themselves; men eat; but only wise men know the art of eating.”
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Mindful EatingWisdom
“The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.”
Mark Twain
Healthy HabitsFunny
“Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.”
Mark Twain
Enjoying FoodFunny
“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.”
Oscar Wilde
Family DinnersFunny
“Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body.”
Henry David Thoreau
Self-CareHealth
“Everything in excess is opposed to nature.”
Hippocrates
ModerationNature
“If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.”
Hippocrates
NutritionExercise
“Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.”
George Herbert
HealthPrevention
“Diet cures more than the lancet.”
Thomas Fuller
PreventionHealing
“Jack Sprat could eat no fat, his wife could eat no lean; and so betwixt them both, they licked the platter clean.”
Mother Goose
CouplesFunny