In all the controversies over what the causes of diversities might be, no one seem to have paid much attention to the factor in the environment that has the most obvious effect on any organism: food.
- Michael Crawford & David Marsh,
The Driving Force: Food in Evolution and the Future

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.
- La Rochefoucauld

He that takes medicine and neglects diet, wastes the skill of the physician.
- Chinese Proverb

Stomach: A slave that must accept everything that is given to it, but which avenges wrongs as slyly as does the slave.
- Emile Souvester

The belly is the giver of genius.
- Persius

Eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
- Mark Twain

A hungry stomach rarely despises common food.
- Horace

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
(from Food Quotes and Proverbs)

Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me. - - Proverbs 30:8

Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with food.
- Hippocrates

Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.
- William Shakespeare

When diet is wrong medicine is of no use.
When diet is correct medicine is of no need.
- Ancient Ayurvedic Proverb

You are what you eat.
- American Proverb

Let food be thy medicine, thy medicine shall be thy food.
- Hippocrates

Simple diet is best; for many dishes bring many diseases: and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
- Pliny

Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks. 
- Lin Yutang

Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.
- Maimonides

The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.
- Thomas A Edison