Helena Rubinstein Quotes

We never repent of having eaten too little.

Stop short of your appetite; eat less than you are able.

I try to feed my hunger rather than my appetite.

Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.

I won't eat past when I'm full. I think that's the problem some people have, they like a dish so much that they'll eat until it's completely gone and feel sick after. Me, if I feel full, ready, comfortable, I'll stop.

Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty.

The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.

I'm not a foodie - I'm an eater: I'm hungry.

Stop eating before you're full.

At banquets surfeit not, but fill; partake, and retire; and eat not again till you crave.

It is a curious fact that no man likes to call himself a glutton, and yet each of us has in him a trace of gluttony, potential or actual. I cannot believe that there exists a single coherent human being who will not confess, at least to himself, that once or twice he has stuffed himself to bursting point on anything from quail financiere to flapjacks, for no other reason than the beastlike satisfaction of his belly.

A bellyful is a bellyful.

When it comes to eating, you can sometimes help yourself more by helping yourself less.

If you want something, have it. If you feel like it's forbidden, you'll want it even more. Whenever I have a craving, I go and have it and just make sure I don't have it again the next day.

As an athlete, you're brought up with that mentality that you finish everything you start. If you're going to start a meal, you're going to finish it until the plate is clean. I had to change that mentality to one of where, 'I eat until I'm full and leave the rest.'

Hunger and self-control do not go hand in hand.

I love to eat. I'm not the biggest guy, but I love to eat.

The fact is, I diet every day of my life. I have to work at it. But I diet so I can pig out.

From abundance springs satiety.

Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.

I like to eat.

Moderation is actually the flip side of dieting, that is, imposed deprivation.

I say 'no' to nothing, 'yes' to moderation. That's how I approach everything. No matter if it's candy or foie gras. When you have the real deal, you're satisfied with that one bite. I say go full throttle and call it a day.

I never pile a plate to the point where it overflows. I'd rather have a small plate with small portions and then get up for more if I'm still hungry.