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Quotes About Balance

There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony.
~ Henry David Thoreau, Walking
I know my limit. I just keep passing out before I reach it.
~ Red Skelton
The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.
~ Barbara Cartland
Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
~ Pliny the Elder
He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.
~ Samuel Johnson
Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
~ Fran Lebowitz
It's okay to treat yourself once in awhile. I'm not going to stop eating Mexican food!
~ Jennifer Aniston
At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.
~ Oliver Reed
The penguin doesn't know it's cute, and the leopard seal doesn't know it's kind of big and monstrous. This is just the food chain unfolding.
~ Unknown
Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
~ Socrates
I think it is true that you can eat extremely healthy food at McDonald's, and you can eat amazingly badly at Chipotle.
~ Michael Specter
I find the less attention I pay to food, the healthier I am.
~ Christina Ricci
I can pretty much live without fast food. I haven't eaten McDonald's in so long, but it's okay.
~ Ed Westwick
I used food to make myself feel better, but I felt worse when I ate.
~ Robin Williams
Never take more than your share - whether of the road in driving your car, of chairs on a boat or seats on a train, or food at the table.
~ Emily Post
Brandy and water spoils two good things.
~ Charles Lamb
In general, I try to eat food without added hormones and pesticides, but I'm not so strict that I won't have a Big Mac once in a while.
~ Missy Peregrym
Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?
~ William Shakespeare
The more obsessively we focus on what a particular food is going to do for us, the less healthy we've become. Simple pleasures become complicated.
~ Alison Gopnik
I believe that eating simple food in a healthy body with a clean conscience is more pleasurable, and infinitely more satisfying, then eating decadent food that makes you and your world ill.
~ John Robbins
The more people there are, the more food we need, the more space we occupy, the more resources and consumer goods we wish to have and the more development has to take place
~ Prince Philip
Cooking well doesn't mean cooking fancy.
~ Julia Child
Drink wine every day, at lunch and dinner, and the rest will take care of itself.
~ Waverley Root
Peace prevails when food suffices
~ Momofuku Ando