If one doesn't have a character like Abraham Lincoln or Joan of Arc, a diet simply disintegrates into eating exactly what you want to eat, but with a bad conscience.

—Maria Augusta Trapp

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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

—Ronald Reagan

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The meal is not over when I'm full. The meal is over when I hate myself.

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Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.

—Sophia Loren

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Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork.

—English proverb

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I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.

—Calvin Trillin

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