As for food, half of my friends have dug their graves with their teeth.
—Chauncey Depew (1834–1928) American Lawyer, Politician, Raconteur
My advice if you insist on slimming: Eat as much as you like – just don’t swallow it.
—Harry Secombe (1921–2001) Welsh Singer, Comedian, Actor
Not afraid of heights – afraid of widths.
—Unknown
Forget about calories – everything makes thin people thinner, and fat people fatter.
—Mignon McLaughlin (1913–83) American Journalist, Author
I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.
—Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist
Although a lot of pain for a little screen time; Shaving legs, waxing eyebrows, high heels, trying to put on a bra, losing weight because women’s clothes are SO revealing – Ladies you have my respect.
—Lou Diamond Phillips (b.1962) American Actor, Director
Your body is the baggage you must carry through life. The more excess the baggage, the shorter the trip.
—Arnold Glasow (1905–98) American Businessman
Whatever will satisfy hunger is good food.
—Chinese Proverb
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four, unless there are three other people.
—Orson Welles (1915–85) American Film Director, Actor
I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.
—Walt Disney (1901–66) American Entrepreneur
Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.
—Tobias Wolff (b.1945) American Novelist, Editor, Journalist, Educator
In eating, a third of the stomach should be filled with food, a third with drink and the rest left empty.
—The Talmud Sacred Text of the Jewish Faith
Probably nothing in the world arouses more false hopes than the first four hours of a diet.
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989) Irish Novelist, Playwright
Feed sparingly and defy the physician.
—James Howell (c.1593–1666) Anglo-Welsh Writer, Historian
I go up and down the scale so often that if they ever perform an autopsy on me they’ll find me like a strip of bacon – a streak of lean and a streak of fat.
—Texas Guinan (1884–1933) American Actor, Entrepreneur
We were the country that has more food to eat than any other country in the world, and with more diets to keep us from eating it.
—Unknown
In the Middle Ages, they had guillotines, stretch racks, whips and chains. Nowadays, we have a much more effective torture device called the bathroom scale.
—Stephen Phillips (1864–1915) British Poet, Dramatist
Another good reducing exercise consists in placing both hands against the table edge and pushing back.
—Robert Quillen (1887–1948) American Journalist, Humorist
The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books – how not to eat what you’ve just learned how to cook.
—Andy Rooney (b.1919) American Writer, Humorist, TV Personality
The great weight of the ship may indeed prevent her from acquiring her greatest velocity; but when she has attained it, she will advance by her own intrinsic motion, without gaining any new degree of velocity, or lessening what she has acquired.
—William Faulkner (1897–1962) American Novelist
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.
—Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw) (1818–85) American Humorist, Author, Lecturer
I think the hardest thing is losing weight. That’s the hardest thing more than anything else.
—Aretha Franklin (1942–2018) American Gospel And Soul Singer
Gluttony is not a secret vice.
—Orson Welles (1915–85) American Film Director, Actor
Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
—Albert Camus (1913–60) Algerian-born French Philosopher, Dramatist, Novelist
At first I threw my weight upon my heels, as one does naturally in a boot, and was a good deal bruised, but after a few hours I learned the natural walk of man, and could follow my guide in any portion of the island.
—John Millington Synge (1871–1909) Irish Playwright, Poet
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
Brain cells come and brain cells go, but fat cells live forever.
—Unknown
I had had an extroverted personality with a lot of friends, but when I lost the weight and grew so tall, I withdrew within myself.
—Tyra Banks (b.1973) American Supermodel, Talk Show Host
She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say ‘when.’
—P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) British Novelist, Short-story Writer, Playwright
Dieting is not a piece of cake.
—Unknown
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