Famous Quotes - Tags - Diet

  • A man may esteem himself happy when that which is his food is also his medicine. More
  • A red-headed woodpecker flew across the river, and the Indian remarked that it was good to eat. More
  • And pray what more can a reasonable man desire, in peaceful times, in ordinary noons, than a... More
  • Eat less when you dine; live to age ninety-nine. More
  • Every New Englander might easily raise all his own breadstuffs in this land of rye and Indian... More
  • He may travel who can subsist on the wild fruits and game of the most cultivated country. More
  • He was a man of Spartan habits, and at sixty was scrupulous about his diet at your table,... More
  • I am more interested in the rosy cheek than I am to know what particular diet the maiden is fed on. More
  • I believe that every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in... More
  • I fancy it must be the quantity of animal food eaten by the English which renders their character... More
  • I learned from my two years’ experience that it would cost incredibly little trouble to obtain... More
  • If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner,
    And take to light claret instead of pale... More
  • It is not worth the while to live by rich cookery. More
  • It was fit that I should live on rice, mainly, who loved so well the philosophy of India. More
  • Men should not labor foolishly like brutes, but the brain and the body should always, or as much... More
  • Most men would feel shame if caught preparing with their own hands precisely such a dinner,... More
  • Once I went so far as to slaughter a woodchuck which ravaged my bean-field,—effect his... More
  • One who was my companion in my two previous excursions to these woods, tells me that ... he found... More
  • Some simple dishes recommend themselves to our imaginations as well as palates. More
  • The carcasses of some poor squirrels, however, the same that frisked so merrily in the morning,... More
  • The fruits eaten temperately need not make us ashamed of our appetites, nor interrupt the... More
  • The gross feeder is a man in the larva state; and there are whole nations in that condition,... More
  • The Indian said that he had got his money by hunting, mostly high up the West Branch of the... More
  • The repugnance to animal food is not the effect of experience, but is an instinct. It appeared... More
  • There is a certain class of unbelievers who sometimes ask me such questions as, if I think that I... More
  • There is not enough exercise in this way of life. I try to make up by active gymnastics before I... More
  • There is not one kind of food for all men. You must and you will feed those faculties which you... More
  • Three meals of thin gruel a day, with an onion twice a week, and half a roll on Saturdays. More
  • To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality. More
  • To safeguard one’s health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed. More
  • We sometimes meet uncivil men, children of Amazons, who dwell by mountain paths, and are said to... More
  • Whatever my own practice may be, I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human... More
  • When at the pond, I wished sometimes to add fish to my fare for variety. I have actually fished... More
  • Yet, for my part, I was never unusually squeamish; I could sometimes eat a fried rat with a good... More
  • ‘Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms. More

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