If thou wouldst preserve a sound body, use fasting and walking; if a healthful soul, fasting and praying.—Walking exercises the body; praying exercises the soul; fasting cleanses both.
—Francis Quarles (1592–1644) English Religious Poet
Don’t go out of your weigh to please anyone but yourself.
—Unknown
Not afraid of heights – afraid of widths.
—Unknown
As for food, half of my friends have dug their graves with their teeth.
—Chauncey Depew (1834–1928) American Lawyer, Politician, Raconteur
Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No—no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.
—Washington Irving (1783–1859) American Essayist, Biographer, Historian
The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight, because by then your body and your fat are really good friends.
—Indian Proverb
I think I just ate my willpower.
—Unknown
Diet cures more than the doctor.
—Anonymous
The art of dining is no slight art, he pleasure not a slight pleasure.
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–92) French Essayist
Stressed spelled backwards is desserts. Coincidence? I think not!
—Unknown
Clogged with yesterday’s excess, the body drags the mind down with it.
—Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (65–8 BCE) Roman Poet
To lengthen your life, shorten your meals.
—Common Proverb
Rich, fatty foods are like destiny: they too, shape our ends.
—Indian Proverb
How easy for those who do not bulge to not overindulge!
—Ogden Nash (1902–71) American Writer of Sophisticated Light Verse
There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.
—Bertrand A. Russell (1872–1970) British Philosopher, Mathematician, Social Critic
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst, for they are sticking to their diets.
—Unknown
I am a nutritional overachiever.
—Unknown
A golfer’s diet: live on greens as much as possible.
—Unknown
Probably nothing in the world arouses more false hopes than the first four hours of a diet.
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989) Irish Novelist, Playwright
When we lose twenty pounds… we may be losing the twenty best pounds we have! We may be losing the pounds that contain our genius, our humanity, our love and honesty.
—Woody Allen (b.1935) American Film Actor, Director
To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.
—Naomi Wolf (b.1962) American Writer, Journalist
Simple diet is best—for many dishes bring many diseases; and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
—Pliny the Elder (23–79CE) Roman Statesman, Scholar
A diet is the penalty we pay for exceeding the feed limit.
—Unknown
Let your head be more than a funnel to your stomach
—German Proverb
I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.
—Walt Whitman (1819–92) American Poet, Essayist, Journalist
The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.
—Cyril Connolly (1903–74) British Literary Critic, Writer
Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin Surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.
—John Milton (1608–74) English Poet, Civil Servant, Scholar, Debater
People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New Year and Christmas
—Indian Proverb
More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.
—John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006) Canadian-Born American Economist
Tell me what you like and I’ll tell you what you are.
—John Ruskin (1819–1900) English Writer, Art Critic
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