“To eat is human, to digest divine.”
Mark Twain
DigestionFunny
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.
“Why are there no cucumber sandwiches? I ordered them specially.”
Oscar Wilde
SnacksFunny
“Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.”
Jane Austen
BakingHome
“'Take some more tea,' the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly. 'I've had nothing yet,' Alice replied in an offended tone, 'so I can't take more.'”
Lewis Carroll
Tea TimeFunny
“Beautiful Soup, so rich and green, waiting in a hot tureen!”
Lewis Carroll
SoupComfort Food
“Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet, eating her curds and whey.”
Mother Goose
DairyChildhood
“Eat an apple on going to bed, and you'll keep the doctor from earning his bread.”
Traditional Proverb
FruitHealth
“I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.”
Henry David Thoreau
VegetarianEthics
“If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.”
Leo Tolstoy
VegetarianCompassion
“Eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise.”
Hippocrates
ExerciseHealth
“No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.”
Maimonides
Food As MedicineHealing
“Physick, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise or temperance.”
Joseph Addison
PreventionExercise
“The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.”
Jonathan Swift
WellnessHappiness
“Eat at pleasure, drink by measure.”
Thomas Fuller
Enjoying FoodModeration
“Leave off with an appetite.”
Thomas Fuller
Mindful EatingPortion Control
“He took just so much food as he could eat with relish.”
Xenophon
Mindful EatingEnjoyment
“Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.”
Voltaire
Enjoying FoodGratitude
“Of all the delicacies in the whole mundus edibilis, I will maintain it to be the most delicate - princeps obsoniorum.”
Charles Lamb
Food LoversFunny
“Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind must like, I think, to read about them.”
William Makepeace Thackeray
Food WritingFunny
“It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs.”
Jerome K. Jerome
Food And MoodFunny
“We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach wills so.”
Jerome K. Jerome
EnergyFocus
“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
G. K. Chesterton
CheeseFunny
“The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.”
Saki
CookingFunny
“Hunger is not ambitious; it is quite satisfied to come to an end; nor does it care very much what food brings it to an end.”
Seneca
Simple FoodContentment
“Take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.”
The Bible (Luke 12:19)
EnjoymentCaution