When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
St. Jerome
They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.
Juvenal
Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression.
Marshall McLuhan
How easy for those who do not bulge to not overindulge!
Ogden Nash
Simple diet is best--for many dishes bring many diseases; and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
Pliny
I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat people.
Unknown
Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.
Jim Davis
Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; / In short, my deary! kiss me, and be quiet.
Mary Worley Montagu
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease
Alexander Pope
One day it's going to dawn on the human race that war is as barbaric a means of resolving conflict as cannibalism is as a means of coping with diet deficiencies
Bruce Kent
Drinking freshly made juices and eating enough whole foods to provide adequate fiber is a sensible approach to a healthful diet
Jay Kordich
If you have formed the habit of checking on every new diet that comes along, you will find that, mercifully, they all blur together, leaving you with only one definite piece of information: french-fried potatoes are out.
Jean Kerr
To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.
François de la Rochefoucauld
When we lose twenty pounds... we may be losing the twenty best pounds we have! We may be losing the pounds that contain our genius, our humanity, our love and honesty
Woody Allen