Life itself is the proper binge.
—Julia Child (1912–2004) American Cook, Author
To lengthen your life, shorten your meals.
—Common Proverb
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
—Tony Robbins (b.1960) American Self-Help Author, Entrepreneur
Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.
—Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish Novelist
More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.
—John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006) Canadian-Born American Economist
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
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
From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free
—Jacques Cousteau (1910–97) French Oceanographer, Documentary Director
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
Reality check: you can never, ever, use weight loss to solve problems that are not related to your weight. At your goal weight or not, you still have to live with yourself and deal with your problems. You will still have the same husband, the same job, the same kids, and the same life. Losing weight is not a cure for life.
—Phil McGraw (b.1950) American TV Personality
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
Gluttony is not a secret vice.
—Orson Welles (1915–85) American Film Director, Actor
Bigger snacks mean bigger slacks.
—Indian Proverb
There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
—Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist
History is apt to judge harshly those who sacrifice tomorrow for today.
—Harold Macmillan (1894–1986) British Head of State
The first thing you lose on a diet is your sense of humor.
—Indian Proverb
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
—Napoleon I (1769–1821) Emperor of France
Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.
—Indian Proverb
If you hang your swimsuit On the refrigerator door, The goodies inside Will be easier to ignore.
—Unknown
We never repent having eaten too little.
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) American Head of State, Lawyer
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
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
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
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
Clogged with yesterday’s excess, the body drags the mind down with it.
—Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (65–8 BCE) Roman Poet
The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day, you’re off it.
—Jackie Gleason (1916–87) American Comedian, Actor, Conductor
Violent delights have violent ends, and in their triumph die; like fire and powder, which, as they kiss, consume.—They are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
—Moliere (1622–73) French Playwright
The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
—Albert Camus (1913–60) Algerian-born French Philosopher, Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Author
No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish Playwright
I keep trying to lose weight… but it keeps finding me!
—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
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
I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.
—Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist
My wife is a light eater. As soon as it’s light, she starts to eat.
—Henny Youngman (1906–98) Anglo-American Comedian, Violinist
A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.
—Unknown
Brain cells come and brain cells go, but fat cells live forever.
—Unknown
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
Take twice as long to eat half as much.
—Anonymous
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people’s patience.
—John Updike (1932–2009) American Novelist, Poet, Short-Story Writer
Do not dig your grave with your own knife and fork.
—English Proverb
The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.
—Cyril Connolly (1903–74) British Literary Critic, Writer
To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.
—Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist
Not afraid of heights – afraid of widths.
—Unknown
Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
—Paul Sweeney
Obesity is a mental state, a disease brought on by boredom and disappointment.
—Cyril Connolly (1903–74) British Literary Critic, Writer
Eat not to dullness, drink not to elevation.
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat
If you have formed the habit of checking on every new diet that comes along, you will find that, mercifully, they all blur together, leaving you with only one definite piece of information: french-fried potatoes are out.
—Jean Kerr (1922–2003) Irish-American Author, Playwright
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, Essayist, Novelist, Author