130 Overeating Quotes

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Famous Overeating Quotes

More men die from overeating than undernourishment. — Nachman of Breslov

It doesn’t matter what you eat; if you eat too much (volume) of food, you’ll be tired. It’s called blood flow diversion. Eat to 85% full and you’ll avoid this source of fatigue. — Andrew Huberman

We are eating too much of the wrong thing, and not enough of the right thing — David Wolfe

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us. - Peter De Vries

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us. — Peter De Vries

More die in the United States of too much food than of too little. - John Kenneth Galbraith

More die in the United States of too much food than of too little. — John Kenneth Galbraith

More die in the United States from too much food that from too little. — John Kenneth Galbraith

Satiety comes of riches and contumaciousness of satiety. — Solon

I have a wonderfully hedonistic appetite, and if I wasn't really strict with myself, I'd weigh 300 pounds. I'm not good with moderation. — Nick Offerman

Often when a person can't get past stress, she will turn to overeating, drinking or smoking, which can become a greater problem than the stress itself. — Marilu Henner

My worst vice is gluttony. I try to keep myself under control because I'm an athlete, but once a week I like to pig out and act like a normal person. — Gianluigi Buffon

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires. — Benjamin Franklin

Excess weakens the spirits. — Confucius

Love fed fat soon turns to boredom. — Ovid

Food makes my mind sluggish. — Miles Davis

Too much sugar leads to a heavy body, too many distractions lead to a heavy mind. — Gary Brecka

Short Overeating Quotes

  • You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending. — C. S. Lewis
  • Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened. — Dr. Seuss
  • You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. — Marcus Aurelius
  • Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. — Mark Twain
  • I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery. — Thomas Jefferson
  • Architecture is like writing. You have to edit it over and over so it looks effortless — Zaha Hadid
  • If you want your dreams to come true, don't over sleep. — Yiddish Proverbs
  • The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. — William James
  • Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. — Euripides
  • Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Overeating Image Quotes

I've got to pick myself up Dust myself off And start all over again. - Peter Tosh quote

I've got to pick myself up Dust myself off And start all over again. — Peter Tosh

Family over friends, because real friends are family - Drake quote

Family over friends, because real friends are family — Drake

I'm shining like fireworks over your sad, empty town - Taylor Swift quote

I'm shining like fireworks over your sad, empty town — Taylor Swift

Don't turn blue all over now. - Amish Tripathi quote

Don't turn blue all over now. — Amish Tripathi

Move over Lucifer, I'm more ruthless, leave you toothless. - The Notorious B.I.G. quote

Move over Lucifer, I'm more ruthless, leave you toothless. — The Notorious B.I.G.

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed. - Michael Jordan quote

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed. — Michael Jordan

To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have. - Ken Keyes Jr. quote

To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have. — Ken Keyes Jr.

Small daily improvements over time lead to stunning results. - Robin Sharma quote

Small daily improvements over time lead to stunning results. — Robin Sharma

Don't try to win over the haters; you are not a jackass whisperer. - Brené Brown quote

Don't try to win over the haters; you are not a jackass whisperer. — Brené Brown

I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves. - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley quote

I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves. - Mary Wollstonecraft quote

I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led. - Warren G. Bennis quote

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led. — Warren G. Bennis

Capture a shadow, dance with the wind, stand in a rainbow, begin at the end. - Mary Anne Radmacher quote

Capture a shadow, dance with the wind, stand in a rainbow, begin at the end. — Mary Anne Radmacher

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox. - Woody Allen quote

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox. — Woody Allen

If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive. - Dale Carnegie quote

If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive. — Dale Carnegie

Get mad, then get over it. - Colin Powell quote

Get mad, then get over it. — Colin Powell

Gray skies are just clouds passing over. - Duke Ellington quote

Gray skies are just clouds passing over. — Duke Ellington

When it's over it's over. No questions, no tears, no farewell kisses. - Clark Gable quote

When it's over it's over. No questions, no tears, no farewell kisses. — Clark Gable

To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness. - Chinmayananda Saraswati quote

To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness. — Chinmayananda Saraswati

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. - Ernest Hemingway quote

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. — Ernest Hemingway

Stop Overeating Quotes

I will not stop. I will not slow down. I will not pull over to ask for directions. I will build the road that takes me where I want to be and I will drive, drive, drive. I will drive until the vehicle around me breaks down, falls apart and tumbles into useless debris... and then I will walk. — Shane Koyczan

When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness. — Dale Carnegie

Jesus has given you the right to use His name. That name can break the power of disease, the power of the adversary. That name can stop disease and failure from reigning over you. There is no disease that has ever come to man which this name cannot destroy. — E. W. Kenyon

I ain't going to jail no more. The only way we gonna stop them white men from whuppin' us is to take over. What we gonna start sayin' now is Black Power! — Stokely Carmichael

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness. — Leo Buscaglia

Nobody can refuse a person who comes and asks for a job. Nobody can refuse a poor man when he goes and asks for food. Nobody can stop any Indian if he asks a question of his government. This is what the Congress party and the UPA have done over the last 10 years. — Rahul Gandhi

India must remain neutral. The West colonized India, funded Pakistan, tried to stop Goa’s reclamation and Bangladesh’s independence, and sanctioned India for going nuclear to defend itself vs China. Everyone’s trading partner, but no one’s trained poodle. Colonialism is over. — Balaji Srinivasan

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed. — Wayne Dyer

If you continue to blame other people for “making” you feel guilty, they still have power over you, and you are saying that you will only feel good when they stop doing that. You are giving them control over your life. Stop blaming other people. — Henry Cloud

No one knew what Rodney King had done beforehand to be stopped. No one realized that he was a parolee and that he was violating his parole. No one knew any of those things. All they saw was this grainy film and police officers hitting him over the head. — Daryl Gates

Too Much Food Quotes

The so-called nouvelle cuisine usually means not enough on your plate and too much on your bill. — Paul Bocuse

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting. — Andy Rooney

By ceasing to rear and kill animals for food, we can make so much extra food available for humans that, properly distributed, it would eliminate starvation and malnutrition from this planet. Animal Liberation is Human Liberation too. — Peter Singer

There are young people today that move like old people from eating too much junk food and not getting enough exercise. — Dharma Mittra

I love really good food and I don't ever want to spend too much for it, but I like hanging out and having really good, tasty, interesting food. — Sayings

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. — Michael Pollan

I eat egg whites a lot. Aside from that, I eat everything. I try to avoid too much oily food, but I do eat carbs. I have to have a balanced diet. — Genelia D'Souza

Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening. — Maya Angelou

Eating highly seasoned food is unhealthful, because it stimulates too much, provokes the appetite too much, and often is indigestible. — Catharine Beecher

Too many cooks spoil the broth — Jane Austen

Binge Eating Quotes

No matter what we weigh, those of us who are compulsive eaters have anorexia of the soul. We refuse to take in what sustains us. We live lives of deprivation. And when we can't stand it any longer, we binge. — Geneen Roth

Reading was like eating alone, with that same element of bingeing. — Francine Prose

Binge eating is another eating disorder that people really don't realize is a problem. — Demi Lovato

Anorexia, you starve yourself. Bulimia, you binge and purge. You eat huge amounts of food until you're sick and then you throw up. And anorexia, you just deny yourself. It's about control. — Tracey Gold

I'm on a constant yo-yo of health. I will go a week eating incredibly clean, but then I'll follow that up with a month's worth of binge eating. Then I hit the gym and eat clean, and then I mix it up with core exercises, yoga, Pilates, and sitting on an incline bench while checking my phone. — Josh McDermitt

There are studies that tell us that stress and lack of self-image, lack of self-esteem, severe dieting, binge dieting and binge eating can also be very damaging to a body and bring on various kinds of abnormalities. — Leonard Nimoy

I used to binge-eat and make myself throw up. I was a fat kid. Obviously I didn't quite master the bulimia. — Russell Brand

I try to keep in shape and I always have to check myself. Whenever I binge eat, sweets are the one temptation. — Morris Chestnut

Disciplined governments do not engage in the economic equivalent of binge eating followed by crash dieting. — Peter Blair Henry

Sometimes it's binge eating as a method to handle emotional pain. I'll also write very sporadically - music, lyrics - to identify the problem. There are a few cathartic processes I've alternated randomly. There's no default. Each emotional experience elicits a different, possibly new response. — Brendan Dooling

Eating Disorder Quotes

Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible. — Corrie Ten Boom

We live in a world where most people still subscribe to the belief that shame is a good tool for keeping people in line. Not only is this wrong, but it’s dangerous. Shame is highly correlated with addiction, violence, aggression, depression, eating disorders, and bullying. — Brené Brown

A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience. — Naomi Wolf

Too many young girls have eating disorders due to low self-esteem and distorted body image. I think it's so important for girls to love themselves and to treat their bodies respectfully. — Ariana Grande

I tried to go anorexic for a good three hours. I ate ice and celery, but that’s not even anorexic. And I quit. I was like, 'Ma, can you make me a sandwich? Like, immediately.' — Meghan Trainor

I breathe in slowly. Food is life. I exhale, take another breath. Food is life. And that's the problem. When you're alive, people can hurt you. It's easier to crawl into a bone cage or a snowdrift of confusion. It's easier to lock everybody out. But it's a lie. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Self love is the instrument of our preservation. — Voltaire

Man is never alone. Acknowledged or unacknowledged, that which dreams through him is always there to support him from within. — Laurens van der Post

If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief. — Brené Brown

It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused. — Marcel Proust

Overweight Quotes

I'm not overweight. I flucuate between chubby and curvy. - Mindy Kaling

I'm not overweight. I flucuate between chubby and curvy. — Mindy Kaling

The label of liberalism is hardly a sentence to public ignominy: otherwise Bruce Springsteen would still be rehabilitating used Cadillacs in Asbury Park and Jane Fonda, for all we know, would be just another overweight housewife. — Barbara Ehrenreich

Acting has given me a way to channel my angst. I feel like an overweight, pimply faced kid a lot of the time - and finding a way to access that insecurity, and put it toward something creative is incredibly rewarding. I feel very lucky. — Ryan Reynolds

As a doctor, he knew that there is no physiological reason for all men and women over the age of 40 to become overweight. — Wim Hof

Yes and, you know, I can't use the nice words anymore because I used to chicken out by using them. I used to call myself plus size, used to call myself chubby. I used to call myself overweight. — Star Jones

Mexican cars are just going to be lazy, feckless, flatulent, overweight, leaning against a fence asleep looking at a cactus with a blanket with a hole in the middle on as a coat. — Richard Hammond

There are thin girls with infertility issues, normal sized girls with infertility issues and overweight girls with infertility issues. Unless your doctor tells you your weight is affecting you in some way... once the doctor rules it out, that's really not it. — Giuliana Rancic

I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman. — David Bowie

If I weren't acting, I would own my own chocolate shop in Paris. I would be a nice, overweight person that makes chocolate all day long. — Emma Bell

I'm not overweight. I'm just nine inches too short. — Shelley Winters

Eating A Lot Quotes

Blow up your TV...throw away your paper...move to the country and build you a home. Plant a little garden...eat a lot of peaches...try and find Jesus on your own. — John Prine

I love spaghetti and meatballs... I eat a lot. - Susan Lucci

I love spaghetti and meatballs... I eat a lot. — Susan Lucci

Eat well, laugh often, love a lot. — French Proverbs

I'm just taking care of myself: Eating less, exercising more, drinking a lot of coconut water. — Jennie Garth

I think life is about falling in love with the right person, shopping, eating our favorite desserts and traveling a lot. — Olivia Palermo

There's a lot of talk about self-esteem these days. It seems pretty basic to me. If you eat to feel proud of yourself, you've got to do things you can be proud of. Feelings follow actions. — Oseola McCarty

It's simple. Eat well, exercise and get lots of sleep but make sure you indulge occasionally. At my age , I think , what the hell , and eat a Krispy Kreme doughnut ! — Michelle Pfeiffer

Thanksgiving. It's like we didn't even try to come up with a tradition. The tradition is, we overeat. 'Hey, how about at Thanksgiving we just eat a lot?' 'But we do that every day!' 'Oh. What if we eat a lot with people that annoy the hell out of us?' — Jim Gaffigan

I eat a little bit of everything and not a lot of anything. Everything in moderation. I know that's really hard for people to understand, but I grew up in an Italian family where we didn't overdo anything. We ate pasta, yes, but not a lot of it. — Giada De Laurentiis

I'm a big fish eater. Salmon - I love salmon. My sister loves Chinese food and sushi and all that. I'm not as big of a fan, but she likes it so we eat it a lot. So I'm beginning to like it more. I don't like the raw sushi. I liked the cooked crab and lobster and everything. — Elle Fanning

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More Overeating Quotes

Birds fly over the rainbow. Why then, oh, why can't I? - Judy Garland quote

Birds fly over the rainbow. Why then, oh, why can't I? — Judy Garland

I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it. - Janet Flanner quote

I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it. — Janet Flanner

Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again. - Yotam Ottolenghi quote

Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again. — Yotam Ottolenghi

Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war. - Seneca quote

Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war. — Seneca

There's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over. - Frank Zappa quote

There's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over. — Frank Zappa

I will write peace on your wings and you will fly all over the world. - Sadako Sasaki quote

I will write peace on your wings and you will fly all over the world. — Sadako Sasaki

It is better to be looked over than overlooked. - Mae West quote

It is better to be looked over than overlooked. — Mae West

And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true. - Harold Arlen quote

And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true. — Harold Arlen

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. - Samuel Johnson quote

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. — Samuel Johnson

I can never unlove you. I'll just love you in a different way now. - Piolo Pascual quote

I can never unlove you. I'll just love you in a different way now. — Piolo Pascual

My whole thing is loyalty. Loyalty over royalty; word is bond. - Fetty Wap quote

My whole thing is loyalty. Loyalty over royalty; word is bond. — Fetty Wap

When God says something, the argument is over. - R. C. Sproul quote

When God says something, the argument is over. — R. C. Sproul

Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War... - Louis Pasteur quote

Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War... — Louis Pasteur

The way you discover your gifts is really by serving not by searching. - Loren Cunningham quote

The way you discover your gifts is really by serving not by searching. — Loren Cunningham

We have it in our power to begin the world over again. - Thomas Paine quote

We have it in our power to begin the world over again. — Thomas Paine

Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women. - Elsa Schiaparelli quote

Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women. — Elsa Schiaparelli

One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved. - Romain Rolland quote

One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved. — Romain Rolland

In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed. - Ralph Waldo Emerson quote

In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

So it's like starting over again, but I look forward to the challenge. - Lee Majors quote

So it's like starting over again, but I look forward to the challenge. — Lee Majors

Never cry over spilt milk, because it may have been poisoned. - W. C. Fields quote

Never cry over spilt milk, because it may have been poisoned. — W. C. Fields

I don't know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over. - Maria Callas quote

I don't know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over. — Maria Callas

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