"I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself."

Food, Health, Abstinence, Excess

21

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself."

Exlpore more Food quotes

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

Food, Gold, Song, World

"Peanut butter is a poor man's marmalade."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Food, Humor, Truth, Life, Economy

"We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun."

George Orwell, British Author

Food, Machine, May

"In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn."

Michael Pollan, American Educator

Food, Key

"I'm not sure why it is, but I love food more than just about anything else."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

Food, Passion, Happiness, Desire

"The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small."

Woody Allen, American Director

Food,

"New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin."

Mark Twain, American Author

Food, Sin, Crime, Enjoyment

"No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Food, Being, Chance, Company

"Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

Food, Conversation, Wit

"Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is."

P. J. O'Rourke, American Comedian

Food, Humor, Irony, Reality

Explore more quotes by Giacomo Casanova

"I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death."

Death

"I leave to others the decision as to the good or evil tendencies of my character, but such as it is it shines upon my countenance, and there it can easily be detected by any physiognomist."

Character

"Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom."

Time

"In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe the wicked without doing them any injury."

Time

"It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless."

Courage

"Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and is susceptible of being corrected and improved."

Education

"My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it."

Art

"The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke; it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months."

Age

"We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part."

Victory

"Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the moment he allows his actions to be ruled by passion."

Action