#Diet Quotes

“I have lived temperately, eating little animal food, and that not as an aliment, so much as a condiment for the vegetables, which constitute my principal diet.”

“My experience...convinced me that tea was better than brandy, and during the last six months in Afica I took no brandy, even when sick taking tea instead.”

“You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.”

“SIR,-Your letter of February the 18th came to hand on the 1st instant; and the request of the history of my physical habits would have puzzled me not a little, had it not been for the model with which you accompanied it, of Doctor Rush's answer to a similar inquiry. I live so much like other people, that I might refer to ordinary life as a history of my own. Like my friend the Doctor, I have lived temperately, eating very little animal food, and that not as an aliment, so much as a condiment for the vegetables, which constitute my principle diet.”

“My mom didn't let me eat sugar or candy until I was older.”

“Sugar makes me feel crazy - like, makes my body hurt kind of a thing. I don't really eat fruit because it has a lot of sugar. I try not to eat a lot of red meat, but every now and again, I feel like I need iron or something - something that I'm missing.”

“People say fish is good for a diet. But fish should never be cooked in butter. Fish should be cooked in its natural oils - Texaco, Mobil, Exxon .”

“It is wonderful, if we chose the right diet, what an extraordinarily small quantity would suffice.”

“Men who can eat anything they want and not gain weight should do it out of sight of the women they're married to.”

“I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.”

“I'm stopped. I'll never eat another burger.”

“The consumption of vegetables involves himsa, but I cannot give them up.”

“I've been stopped cold from eating another burger!”

“If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef-tea or mutton, even under medical advice, I would prefer death.”

“I like good food. People want a certain taste, but when they're offered something else, they'll overeat. If they really are looking for chicken and someone gives them pork chops, they'll say, "I will have another." And that's because their satisfaction is not reached. So I thought I would make great food, but eat less of it. I tried it and I've taken off over 40 pounds.”

“I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.”

“I'm a vegan. I lost 150 pounds because of being a vegan.”

“I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.”

“The most violent weapon on earth is the table fork.”

“Violence begins with the fork.”

“I usually eat four or five raw carrots with my meat, and that is all. I must be part rabbit; I never get bored with raw carrots”

“It is necessary to correct the error that vegetarianism has made us weak in mind, or passive or inert in action. I do not regard flesh-food as necessary at any stage”

“It is very significant that some of the most thoughtful and cultured men are partisans of a pure vegetable diet”

“I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily to live, I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species.”

“The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.”

“I work out every morning. Only half an hour. I get on the treadmill. That's it. Every morning, I don't care what time. It gets your blood flowing. It gets your adrenaline flowing. I believe in eating well. It's not fanatical. Eat good food. Make sure you've got good vegetables.”

“We're mostly macrobiotic, but sometimes I take the family out for a pizza.”

“The repugnance to animal food is not the effect of experience, but is an instinct. It appeared more beautiful to live low and farehard in many respects; and though I never did so, I went far enough to please my imagination.”

“The person who is ignorant enough to believe that his nourishment depends on meat is in a horrible dilemma.”

“I am not a complete vegetarian. I eat only animals that have died in their sleep.”

“The time is coming when man will be able to determine the length of his lifespan by controlling his diet.”

“Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.”

“No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.”

“I'm not a vegetarian, but I eat animals who are.”

“I don't. I look my age; and I am my age. It is the other people who look older than they are. What can you expect from people who eat corpses and drink spirits?”

“A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.”

“To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed.”

“There are many people who enjoy animal based foods and who have no interest in changing the way they eat. And as you correctly pointed out, animal products are an integral part of some ethnic groups and societies and it would be nearly impossible for them to change thousands of years of traditional eating habits.”

“The closer you can live to being a vegetarian the better.”

“In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.”

“I'm on a diet as my skin doesn't fit me anymore.”

“Those magazine dieting stories always have the testimonial of a woman who wore a dress that could slipcover New Jersey in one photo and thirty days later looked like a well-dressed thermometer.”

“I was leafing through a magazine where there was a before-and-after picture of a woman who went from a size 5 to a size 3 by liposuction. Was she serious? I've cooked bigger turkeys than her "before" picture.”

“It is my theory you can't get rid of fat. All you can do is move it around, like furniture.”

“I just clipped 2 articles from a current magazine. One is a diet guaranteed to drop 5 pounds off my body in a weekend. The other is a recipe for a 6 minute pecan pie.”

“I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.”

“What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?”

“No One Diets on Thanksgiving.”

“I tried the Scarsdale diet and the Stillman water diet (you remember that one, where you run weight off trying to get to the bathroom).”

“I didn't fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian.”