Diet Wise Academy

Some Dietary Quotes

‘Tis not her coldness, father, That chills my labouring breast;

It’s that confounded cucumber I’ve ate and can’t digest.

Richard Harris Barham: The Confession

Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred there-

with. Proverbs (ch. XV, v. 17)

The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach.

[Spanish, Tripas llevan corazon, que no corazon tripas.]

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra: Don Quixote (ch. II, 47)

History is apt to judge harshly those who sacrifice tomorrow for today.

Harold MacMillan

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

[Latin, Esse oportet ut vivas, non vivere ut edas.]

Cicero: Rhetoricorum Ad C. Herennium (IV, 7)

We think fast food is equivalent to pornography, nutritionally speaking.

Steve Elbert

We are all dietetic sinners; only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us;
the balance goes to waste and loss of energy. Sir William Osler