When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men know what I mean.
—Lin-Chi
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
Eating is never so simple as hunger.
—Erica Jong
A waist is a terrible thing to mind.
—Jane Caminos
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
If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.
—Johnny Carson
Never eat more than you can lift.
—Miss Piggy
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd druther not.
—Mark Twain
Fake food—I mean those patented substances chemically flavored and mechanically bulked out to kill the appetite and deceive the gut—is unnatural, almost immoral, a bane to good eating and good cooking.
—Julia Child
Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration.
—Igor Stravinsky
Loneliness is like starvation: you don't realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat.
—Joyce Carol Oates in Faithless
I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
—Calvin Trillin
Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork.
—English proverb
Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.
—Sophia Loren
The meal is not over when I'm full. The meal is over when I hate myself.
—Louis C.K.