diet quotes

EDUCATION.At Mr Wackford Squeers's Academy, Dotheboys Hall, at the delightful village of Dotheboys, near Greta Bridge inYorkshire.Youth are boarded, clothed, booked, furnished with pocket-money, providedwith all necessaries, instructed inall languages, living and dead, mathematics, orthography, geometry, astronomy, trigonometry, the use of the globes, algebra, single stick (if required), writing, arithmetic, fortification, and every other branch of classical literature. Terms, twenty guineas per annum. No extras, no vacations, and diet unparalleled.

- CharlesJohn Huffam Dickens
^9  Nicholas Nickleby, ch.3.

To what a cumbersome unwieldiness And burdenous corpulence my love had grown, But that I did, to make it less, And keep it in proportion, Give it a diet, made it feed upon That which love worst endures, discretion.

-John Donne
?1595^1605  'Love's Diet', collected in Songs and Sonnets (1633).

The root of Evil, Avarice That damn'd ill-natur'd, baneful Vice, Was Slave to Prodigality, That noble Sin; whilst Luxury Employed a Million of the Poor, And odious Pride a Million more; Envy itself, and Vanity, Were Ministers of Industry; Their darling Folly, Fickleness, In Diet, Furniture and Dress That strange ridic'lous Vice, was made That very Wheel that turned theTrade.

- Bernard Mandeville
  The Fable of the Bees, or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits (2nd edn.).

   On this twelfth day of my diet I would rather die satiated than slim.

- Marge Piercy
  Stone, Paper, Knife,'On Mental Corsets'.

Give me my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon, My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation, My gown of glory, hope's true gage, And thus I'll take my pilgrimage.

- Sir Walter Raleigh
  The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage.

There is no disease, bodily or mental, which adoption of vegetable diet and pure water has not infallibly mitigated, wherever the experiment has been fairly tried.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley
  'AVindication of Natural Diet'.