65 Diet Quotes

I turned vegetarian after 9/11. A friend of mine came back from New York and said that he couldn't stand the smell of burnt flesh. It immediately reminded me of a barbecue.

Their diet is basically boiled vegetables, fish and rice. No fat, no sugar. You notice when you live there that there are no fat people.

It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.

I think vegetarians - for a lot of them - it's about a lack of commitment to life and relationships. There are some who just like the fact that they're controlling something in their life.

We don't eat anything that has to be killed for us. We've been through a lot and we've reached a stage where we really value life.

When I was old enough to realize all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational way of using our power, to take a weaker thing and mutilate it. It was like the way bullies would take control of younger kids in the schoolyard.

It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.

In fact, it makes me mad when someone kills snakes or dogs or cats or horses. I don't even like to eat meat - that is how much I am against killing....

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.

There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

Good wine is a necessity of life for me.

Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.

There are no bad foods, only bad food habits. I eat cream, butter, and bacon; I just don't eat pounds of it at a time. I use these things when they are needed in recipes and leave them out when they're not needed.

on diets: My advice: write down everything you eat. It's amazing what that 'self honesty' can do for you. (Do you really want to have to confess that doughnut? I thought not.)

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

The average age (life expectancy) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard as ever. I have lived quite long enough and I am trying to die; but I simply cannot do it. A single beefsteak would finish me; but I cannot bring myself to swallow it. I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

And especially, especially, don't fuck with vegans. Do not look vegans in the eye. If you get into an argument with a vegan, say 'I'm wrong', and run away as fast as you can. Do not fuck with vegans because they will fuck you up...BECAUSE THEY'RE HUNGRY.

The first thing that you lose on a diet is brain mass.

Avoid fried meats which angry up the blood. If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts. Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move. Go very light on the vices, such as carrying on in society- the social ramble ain't restful. Avoid running at all times. And don't look back- something might be gaining on you.

I won't eat anything green. (Unknown)

If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use of animal food, because ... its use is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to the moral feeling - killing

If carrots got you drunk, rabbits would be fucked up.

I like rice. Rice is great when you're hungry and you want 2,000 of something.

'Avoid fried meats which angry up the blood'.

This is how it starts, you know. Dissatisfied with the sustenance provided by home, these kids are walking right into the clutches of the processed food world! I mean, from here on out, they'll look to drive-thrus for satisfaction and 'Biggie size!' will be their battlecry.

Last but not least, one cup of heavy cream. That's right, heavy cream. Look, I said I would help you make premium ice cream. I didn't say anything about low carb ice cream, or low fat ice cream, or low anything else ice cream. As far as I'm concerned, ice cream shouldn't be low anything! It should just taste good!

Americans don't eat near enough vegetables. I'm not a vegetarian, though I do respect anyone who makes a hard and fast decision about what he or she is going to live on. All you have to do is look at the health statistics from countries whose cuisines are lighter on meat and heavy on veggies and fish. They live longer. It's as simple as that. What I would hate to see is a radical swing away from meat. I think we evolved as omnivores for a reason. And that's all I have to say about that.

I lived for two years in Japan and it was the best diet I ever had. The whole way of life there is linked to health.

My wife [...] recently put me on a diet after suggesting (a little unkindly, if you ask me), that I was beginning to look like something Richard Branson would try to get airborne.

People are starving all over the world, what do you mean, 'red meat will kill you'? Don't eat no red meat? No, don't eat no green meat : if you're one of the chosen few people in the world lucky enough to get your hands on a steak, bite the shit out of it!

Grayce Llewellyn thought that with appropriate dietary restrictions, she and J Sheringham Adair could have Ivor Llewellyn looking like Fred Astaire.

Ten seconds on the lips and a lifetime in the hips.

The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.

Everything in moderation, including moderation.

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

Romanian-Jewish cooking has killed more Jews than Hitler.