“So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.”
Benjamin Franklin
CravingsFunny
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.
“There's more old drunkards than old doctors.”
Benjamin Franklin
HealthFunny
“Beware of meat twice boil'd, and an old foe reconcil'd.”
Benjamin Franklin
Food SafetyWisdom
“Even the Belly has its work to do.”
Aesop
DigestionTeamwork
“Do not attempt too much at once.”
Aesop
Portion ControlPatience
“He did not eat anything which was not in season.”
Confucius
Seasonal EatingFresh Food
“My son, eat thou honey, because it is good.”
The Bible (Proverbs 24:13)
Natural FoodSweetness
“The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.”
The Bible (Proverbs 27:7)
AppetitePerspective
“We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick.”
The Bible (Numbers 11:5)
CravingsFunny
“The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much.”
The Bible (Ecclesiastes 5:12)
SleepHard Work
“I am the bread of life.”
The Bible (John 6:35)
Spiritual FoodFaith
“At mealtime come thou hither, and eat of the bread.”
The Bible (Ruth 2:14)
HospitalitySharing
“I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts.”
The Bible (Genesis 18:5)
HospitalityComfort Food
“He took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them.”
The Bible (Luke 24:30)
GratitudeSharing
“Let me have men about me that are fat; sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights.”
William Shakespeare
ContentmentFunny
“The meat is cold because you come not home.”
William Shakespeare
Family MealsFunny
“'Tis burnt; and so is all the meat.”
William Shakespeare
Cooking FailsFunny
“Come, we have a hot venison pasty to dinner.”
William Shakespeare
DinnerHospitality
“He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding.”
William Shakespeare
PatienceCooking
“I must have saffron to colour the warden pies.”
William Shakespeare
BakingSpices
“It snowed in his house of meat and drink.”
Geoffrey Chaucer
AbundanceFeasting
“Sir, a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.”
Samuel Johnson
DinnerFunny
“Oats: a grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.”
Samuel Johnson
GrainsFunny
“Gastronomy is the intelligent knowledge of whatever concerns man's nourishment.”
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
NutritionKnowledge
“Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.”
Mark Twain
VegetablesFunny