#Lifestyle Quotes

“The poodle [Rufus] ate in the dining room with the rest of the [Churchill] family. A cloth was laid for him on the Persian carpet beside the head of the household, and no one else ate until the butler had served Rufus's meal.”

“Weight control does have to be for a lifetime or you'll be yo-yoing.”

“I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form.”

“My tastes are simple. I like only the very best.”

“I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.”

“I've never been very fully employed either.”

“I find that the standard of living does not go up in proportion with the cost of living. The trick in life is to do things that are fun all the time.”

“I'm happy when I can spend every day doing the things that I like to do. That's my luxury.”

“If you gave me the choice of being CEO of General Electric or IBM or General Motors, you name it, or delivering papers, I would deliver papers. I would. I enjoyed doing that. I can think about what I want to think. I don't have to do anything I don't want to do.”

“It's not that diabetes, heart disease, and obesity runs in your family...It's that no one runs in you family!”

“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.”

“Agriculture is at the same time the most tranquil, healthy, and independent occupation.”

“I’d rather be at home and eat ice cream than go out and get wasted.”

“I'm never in the same place for more than, like, three days at a time. Things can change from one minute to the next.”

“Let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live, and let's change the way we treat each other.”

“I don't drink much alcohol. If it doesn't taste like candy or sparkles, I usually don't drink it.”

“I never had a drink in my life. I don't smoke or anything.”

“Sports are the reason I am out of shape. I watch them all on TV.”

“I have always felt a little strange about it being so unique that I'm not a train wreck. Like, this weird fluke that I'm not - partying all the time.”

“Of course I have played outdoor games. I once played dominoes in an open air cafe in Paris.”

“Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.”

“Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.”

“Let me be surrounded by luxury, I can do without the necessities!”

“I don't know if I could do this with the same energy, and in the same way - all the costume changes and glitter and hair and makeup - all the time. When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.”

“When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.”

“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.”

“A farm is a good thing, when it begins and ends with itself, and does not need a salary, or a shop, to eke it out.”

“There are rainy days in autumn and stormy days in winter when the rocking chair in front of the fire simply demands an accompanying book.”

“Eating and sleeping are the only activities that should be allowed to interrupt a man's enjoyment of his cigar.”

“It's never been about trying to look well-behaved. It's just how I am. I guess it's a weird thing to be 19 and not ever have been drunk, but for me, it just feels normal because I don't really know any other way. I don't know if I'd be comfortable getting wasted and not knowing what I've said. That doesn't mean when I'm older I won't have a glass of wine. I just don't think it's such a strange thing for me not to be wasted all the time.”

“There's no regimen. There's no personal trainer. I love to go hiking because it's an experience. If I need to gain stamina for a tour, I will run every single night on the treadmill, but I don't necessarily like being at the gym.”

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”

“To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.”

“Though one can dine in New York, one could not dwell there.”

“The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.”

“If we have the khadi spirit in us, then we should surround ourselves with simplicity in every walk of life.”

“He who advises a sick man, whose manner of life is prejudicial to health, is clearly bound first of all to change his patient's manner of life.”

“Men in high levels of government seldom surf.”

“The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to the flute, at another downing water and reducing, now practicing gymnastic, and again idling and neglecting everything; and sometimes spending his time as though he were occupied in philosophy.”

“Not like I need an excuse to enjoy a Moscow mule, but this tray and six-mug set, handmade in Mexico with hammered recycled copper, makes cocktail hour extra special.”

“When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.”

“And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors to invent names for our diseases.”

“I love a Hebrew National hot dog with an ice-cold Corona - no lime. If the phone rings, I won't answer until I'm done.”

“I'd like to live like a poor man with a lot of money.”

“How can you live in the Northeast?”

“She liked to sit on the front porch in the afternoons and read books she'd checked out from the library. Aside from coffee, reading was her only indulgence.”

“Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.”

“These French-style caramels are handmade in California. It's always hard to give them away!”

“I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music.”

“Earlier I`ve done hatever I could get my hands on to do for a living. I tried a couple of different things, but kitchen work was the best for me, because I took to a nomadic lifestyle before I started doing comedy. If you travel and get to a town and need a job, restaurants are always there.”