Society is composed of two great classes –– those who have more dinners than appetite and those who have more appetite than dinners.

––Sebastian-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort

There’s something I’ve noticed about food: whenever there’s a crisis, if you can get people to eating normally, things get better.

 ––Madeleine L’Engle

I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly; feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.

––Ralph Waldo Emerson

Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.

––Adelle Davis

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

 ––Calvin Trillin

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

––Fran Lebowitz

Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you and be silent.

––Epictetus

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

––Mark Twain

Never eat more than you can lift.

––Miss Piggy

I’ve been on a diet for two weeks and all I’ve lost is two weeks.

––Totie Fields

Thank you for calling the Weight Loss Hotline. If you’d like to lose a half pound right now, press 1 eighteen thousand times.

––Randy Glasbergen

My doctor told me to stop eating intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

––Orson Welles

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

––Rita Rudner

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.

––George Bernard Shaw

Food is the most primitive form of comfort.

–Sheila Graham

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