Diet Quotes

I told my doctor I get very tired when I go on a diet, so he gave me pep pills. Know what happened? I ate faster.
Joe E. Lewis

Praise is the best diet for us, after all.

I never diet. I smoke. I drink now and then. I never work out. I work very hard, and I am worth every cent.
Naomi Campbell

An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
Irv Kupcinet

Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities and the fountain of all our diseases. As fire extinguished by an excess of fuel, so is the natural health of the body destroyed by an intemperate diet.
Burton

Page one is a diet, page two is a chocolate cake. It's a no-win situation
Kim Williams

The obese is in a total delirium. For he is not only large, of a size opposed to normal morphology: he is larger than large. He no longer makes sense in some distinctive opposition, but in his excess, his redundancy.

'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.

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.

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.

Let me have men about me that are fat, sleek-headed men and such as sleep a-nights. Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.

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.
Phillip C. McGraw

If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush.
Dawn French

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

Where do you go to get anorexia?
Shelley Winters

I am a nutritional overachiever.

Dieting is not a piece of cake.

A diet is a plan, generally hopeless, for reducing your weight, which tests your will power but does little for your waistline.
Herbert B. Prochnow

Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin Surprise thee, and her black attendant, Death.

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.

Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.

We never repent of having eaten too little.
Thomas Jefferson,

A waist is a terrible thing to mind
Tom Wilson







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