A Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Marcus Tullius Cicero
Roman - Statesman
106 BC - 43 BC

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat. [Lat., Esse oportet ut vivas, non vivere ut edas.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Still seems it strange, that thou shouldst live forever? Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live at all? This is a miracle; and that no more.

Edward Young

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Moliere

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.

Yolanda Adams

We don't eat to live, we live to eat because that's a part of the creativity of the day.

Wendell Pierce

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

There are those people that eat to live and those that live to eat. I am of the latter, as many of you already know. To me, eating is an adventure.