“The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment.”
The Bible (Luke 12:23)
PerspectiveBalance
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.
“The fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine.”
The Bible (Ezekiel 47:12)
Food As MedicineNature
“Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.”
William Shakespeare
SweetsConsequences
“The funeral baked meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.”
William Shakespeare
LeftoversFunny
“If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked!”
William Shakespeare
SugarFunny
“Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?”
William Shakespeare
TreatsBalance
“He is a very valiant trencher-man; he hath an excellent stomach.”
William Shakespeare
Big AppetiteFunny
“Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, chief nourisher in life's feast.”
William Shakespeare
SleepWellness
“Beware of sudden change in any great point of diet, and if necessity inforce it, fit the rest to it.”
Francis Bacon
Gradual ChangeHealthy Habits
“Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.”
Samuel Johnson
Self-KnowledgeWillpower
“The fate of a nation depends on the way that they eat.”
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Food CultureSociety
“The pleasures of the table belong to all times and all ages, to every country and to every day.”
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Enjoying FoodCulture
“I believe it is customary in good society to take some slight refreshment at five o'clock.”
Oscar Wilde
SnacksFunny
“I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.”
Oscar Wilde
Food LoversFunny
“Please, sir, I want some more.”
Charles Dickens
HungerClassic Lines
“A basin of nice smooth gruel, thin, but not too thin.”
Jane Austen
Comfort FoodFunny
“EAT ME.”
Lewis Carroll
TemptationFunny
“Hunger makes hard beans sweet.”
George Herbert
AppetiteGratitude
“Pease porridge hot, pease porridge cold, pease porridge in the pot, nine days old.”
Mother Goose
LeftoversFunny
“To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.”
François de La Rochefoucauld
Mindful EatingWisdom
“Appetite comes with eating.”
François Rabelais
AppetiteHabits
“When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, lying in ambuscade among the dishes.”
Joseph Addison
Rich FoodHealth
“Whoever wishes to eat much must eat little.”
Luigi Cornaro
Long LifeModeration
“Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese - toasted, mostly.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
CravingsFunny
“Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not?”
The Bible (Isaiah 55:2)
NourishmentWisdom