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Food, improperly taken, not only produces original diseases, but affords those that are already engendered both matter and sustenance; so that, let the father of disease be what it may. Intemperance is certainly its mother. - Robert Burton Give me a dozen such heartbreaks, if that would help me lose a couple of pounds. - Sidonie Gabrielle Colette A chine of honest bacon would please my appetite more than all the marrow-puddings, for I like them better plain, having a very vulgar stomach. - John Dryden One meal a day is enough for a lion, and it ought to suffice for a man. - George Fordyce The chief pleasure (in eating) does not consist in costly seasoning or exquisite flavor, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce by sweating. - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Many dishes bring many diseases. - Pliny the Elder (Caius Plinius Secundus) Simple diet is best. - Pliny the Elder (Caius Plinius Secundus) If thou wouldst preserve a sound body, use fasting and walking; if a healthful soul, fasting and praying; walking exercises the body, praying exercises the soul, fasting cleanses both. - Francis Quarles Unquiet meals make ill digestion. - William Shakespeare Your worm is your only emperor for diet; we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. - William Shakespeare A fig for your bill of fare; show me your bill of company. - Jonathan Swift All courageous animals are carnivorous, and greater courage is to be expected in a people, such as the English, whose food is strong and hearty, than in the half starved commonalty of other countries. - Sir William Temple It was Dean Swift who ignored the bill of fare, and asked for a bill of the company. - Nathaniel Parker Willis
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