A Quote by M. F. K. Fisher

Having bowed to the inevitability of the dictum that we must eat to live, we should ignore it and live to eat.

M. F. K. Fisher

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M. F. K. Fisher
American - Writer
July 3, 1908 - June 22, 1992

In order to prove a friend to one's guests, frugality must reign in one's meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.

Moliere

I'd eat, eat, eat, not exercise, go to sleep, eat and eat. I looked up in the mirror and said I had to make a change if I was going to continue to live.

Biz Markie

He who would eat much must eat little, for by eating less he will live longer, and so be able to eat more.

Luigi Cornaro

According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat

Moliere

Of course we do not live in order to eat, but it is not really true to say that we eat in order to live; we eat because we are hungry. Desire has no further intentions behind it... it is a good will.

Emmanuel Levinas

The diet is a twisted, noxious thing, all tortured abstinence and short-term fraud. I speak from bitter experience. As a restaurant critic, I eat to live and live to eat. And having a toxic aversion to exercise, there is little to prevent the inevitable bulging of my gut. Hence the need for the occasional diet.

Tom Parker Bowles

People eat to live but as far as I am concerned, I live to eat and it adds an extra glow to my skin.

Rhea Chakraborty

You can't live if you don't eat, but you don't live to eat. And neither does business exist primarily to make a profit. It exists to fulfill its purpose, whatever that might be.

John Mackey

What good are vitamins? Eat a lobster, eat a pound of caviar - live! If you are in love with a beautiful blonde with an empty face and no brains at all, don't be afraid. Marry her! Live!

Arthur Rubinstein

Good food is healthy food. Food is supposed to sustain you so you can live better, not so you can eat more. Some people eat to live, and some people live to eat.