Simple diet is best. [ Pliny ]
Be simple in your diet. [ Q. Tubero ]
Many dishes bring many diseases. [ Pliny ]
Diet cures more than the lancet. [ Abernethy ]
Unquiet meals make ill digestion. [ William Shakespeare ]
A little with quiet is the only diet. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Praise is the best diet for us, after ail. [ Sydney Smith ]
Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet;
In short, my deary, kiss me! and be quiet. [ Lady M. W. Montagu ]
Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating. [ Balzac ]
He that lives on hope has but a slender diet. [ Proverb ]
Tears are a good alterative, but a poor diet. [ H. W. Shaw ]
Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour. [ William Shakespeare ]
Now, good digestion wait on appetite. And health on both! [ William Shakespeare ]
A fig for your bill of fare; show me your bill of company. [ Swift ]
Use a spare diet; and thus cut off the enemies' provisions. [ Dr. Tronchin ]
Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
One meal a day is enough for a lion, and it ought to suffice for a man. [ Dr. George Fordyce ]
Free-livers on a small scale, who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea. [ Washington Irving ]
It was Dean Swift who ignored the bill of fare, and asked for a bill of the company. [ N. P. Willis ]
We often diet a healthy body into consumption, by plying it with physic instead of food. [ Swift ]
The mind does not know what diet it can feed on until it has been brought to the starvation point. [ Holmes ]
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eat about twice as much as nature requires. [ Franklin ]
Mark what and how great blessings flow from a frugal diet; in the first place, thou enjoyest good health. [ Horace ]
Now learn what and how great benefits a moderate diet brings with it. Before all, you will enjoy good health. [ Horace ]
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, is not much better than tedious disease. [ G. D. Prentice ]
It is by no means improbable that the national character of human societies may be modified by their favorite diet. [ Chatfield ]
Changing hands without changing measures is as if a drunkard in a dropsy should change his doctors, and not his diet. [ Saville ]
No part of diet, in any season, is so healthful, so natural, and so agreeable to the stomach, as good and well-ripened fruits. [ Sir W. Temple ]
Simple diet is best; for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other. [ Pliny ]
The chief pleasure (in eating) does not consist in costly seasoning or exquisite flavor, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce by sweating. [ Horace ]
A chine of honest bacon would please my appetite more than all the marrowpuddings, for I like them better plain, having a very vulgar stomach. [ Dryden ]
Books produce the same effect on the mind that diet does on the body; they may either impart no salutary nutriment, or convey that which is pernicious. [ Mrs. Sigourney ]
If thou wouldst preserve a sound body, use fasting, and walking; if a healthful soul, fasting and praying; walking exercises the body, praying exercises the soul, fasting cleanses both. [ Quarles ]
All courageous animals are carnivorous, and greater courage is to be expected in a people, such as the English, whose food is strong and hearty, than in the half starved commonalty of other countries. [ Sir W. Temple ]
Food, improperly taken, not only produces originnl diseases, but affords those that are already engendered both matter and sustenance; so that, let the father of disease be what it may. In temperance is certainly its mother. [ Burton ]
Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities, and the fountain of all our diseases. As a lamp is choked by a superabundance of oil, a fire extinguished by excess of fuel, so is the natural health of the body destroyed by intemperate diet. [ Burton ]
When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other innumerable distempers lying in ambuscade among the dishes. Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet. Every animal but man keeps to one dish. Herbs are the food of this species, fish of that, and flesh of a third. Man falls upon everything that comes in his way; not the smallest fruit or excrescence of the earth, scarce a berry or a mushroom can escape him. [ Addison ]
In the matter of diet - which is another main thing - I have been persistently strict in sticking to the things which didn't agree with me until one or the other of us got the best of it. Until lately I got the best of it myself. But last spring I stopped frolicking with mince-pie after midnight; up to then I had always believed it wasn't loaded. For thirty years I have taken coffee and bread at eight in the morning, and no bite nor sup until seven-thirty in the evening. Eleven hours. That is all right for me, and is wholesome, because I have never had a headache in my life, but headachy people would not reach seventy comfortably by that road, and they would be foolish to try it. And I wish to urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - that if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go. When they take off the Pullman and retire you to the rancid smoker, put on your things, count your checks, and get out at the first way station where there's a cemetery. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]