Quotes About Food, Hunger, Nutrition, and Diets
Need some inspiration to start eating healthier? Check out these quotes!
“I really regret eating healthy today… said nobody ever.”
— Unknown
“Don’t eat anything your great-great grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food.”
— Michael Pollan
“A diet is a plan, generally hopeless, for reducing your weight, which tests your will power but does little for your waistline.”
— Herbert B. Prochnow
“Sugar is a type of bodily fuel, yes, but your body runs about as well on it as a car would.”
— V.L. Allineare
“We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons.”
— Alfred E. Newman
“Can it be a mistake that ‘STRESSED’ is ‘DESSERTS’ spelled backwards?”
— Unknown
“I tried every diet in the book. I tried some that weren’t in the book. I tried eating the book. It tasted better than most of the diets.”
— Dolly Parton
“Processed foods not only extend the shelf life, but they extend the waistline as well.”
— Karen Sessions
“I’ve been on a diet for two weeks and all I’ve lost is fourteen days.”
— Totie Fields
“As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists.”
— Joan Gussow
“I think I just ate my willpower.”
— Unknown
“Probably nothing in the world arouses more false hopes than the first four hours of a diet.”
— Dan Bennett
“At the end of every diet, the path curves back to the trough.”
— Mason Cooley
“Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Put them together and you've got a kingdom.”
— Jack LaLanne
“What you eat in private will show up in public.”
— Unknown
“The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you’re off it.”
— Jackie Gleason
“When it comes to eating, you can sometimes help yourself more by helping yourself less.”
— Richard Armour
“If food is your best friend, it’s also your worst enemy.”
— Grandpa Jones
“Eat to live, and not live to eat.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“Those who think they have not time for healthy eating will sooner or later have to find time for illness.”
— Edward Stanley
“The secret to living well is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple, and love without measure.”
— Tibetan proverb
“I’ve been on a constant diet for the last two decades. I’ve lost a total of 789 pounds. By all accounts, I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.”
— Erma Bombeck
“Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.”
— Hippocrates
“Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.”
— Doug Larson
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
― Virginia Woolf
“You can eat an entire plate of food and not taste one bite.”
― Dr. Susan Albers
“The first thing you lose on a diet is your sense of humor.”
— Unknown
“Your diet is a bank account. Good food choices are good investments.”
— Bethenny Frankel
“If you can’t pronounce it, don’t eat it.”
— Unknown
“Food is fuel. Don’t let your body run on empty.”
— Unknown
“One workout at a time. One day at a time. One meal at a time.”
— Chalene Johnson
“People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New Year and Christmas.”
— Unknown
“Eat to fuel your body, not to feed your emotions.”
— Unknown
“There is on fountain for youth. What you put in your body is what you get out of it.”
— Jack LaLanne