“What say you to a piece of beef and mustard?”
William Shakespeare
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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.
“He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.”
Jonathan Swift
Trying New FoodsFunny
“Bread is the staff of life.”
Jonathan Swift
BreadEssentials
“Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face, great chieftain o' the pudding-race!”
Robert Burns
Traditional FoodFunny
“Some hae meat and canna eat, and some wad eat that want it; but we hae meat, and we can eat, and sae the Lord be thankit.”
Robert Burns
GratitudeGrace
“Poverty and oysters always seem to go together.”
Charles Dickens
Food CultureFunny
“An egg boiled very soft is not unwholesome.”
Jane Austen
BreakfastFunny
“It is not that food which entereth into the mouth defileth a man, but the appetite with which it is eaten.”
Henry David Thoreau
Mindful EatingAppetite
“Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
HospitalityPeace
“Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.”
Mark Twain
WaterFunny
“An army marches on its stomach.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
NourishmentEnergy
“Dine we must, and we may as well dine elegantly as well as wholesomely.”
Isabella Beeton
CookingHealthy Eating
“Food is anything which nourishes the body.”
Fannie Farmer
NutritionBasics
“Would that you could live on the fragrance of the earth, and like an air plant be sustained by the light.”
Kahlil Gibran
NatureNourishment
“When you crush an apple with your teeth, say to it in your heart, 'Your seeds shall live in my body.'”
Kahlil Gibran
GratitudeMindful Eating
“Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater, had a wife and couldn't keep her.”
Mother Goose
VegetablesFunny
“Simple Simon met a pieman going to the fair.”
Mother Goose
TreatsChildhood
“Fish is what I desire; bear's paw is also what I desire. If I cannot have the two together, I will let the fish go, and take the bear's paw.”
Mencius
ChoicesFood
“Would that I could relieve hunger by rubbing my belly.”
Diogenes
HungerFunny
“Observe due measure; moderation is best in all things.”
Hesiod
ModerationBalance
“Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled.”
The Bible (Proverbs 9:5)
InvitationHospitality
“When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the Lord thy God.”
The Bible (Deuteronomy 8:10)
GratitudeFaith
“The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season.”
The Bible (Psalm 145:15)
ProvisionGratitude
“And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied.”
The Bible (Joel 2:26)
AbundanceSatisfaction
“The Lord of hosts shall make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees well refined.”
The Bible (Isaiah 25:6)
FeastingCelebration