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Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth.
-Proverb
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The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.
-Joseph Addison
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Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.
-Kingsley Amis
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Changing our diet is something we choose to do, not something we are forced to do. Instead of dreading it, try saying, Here's another thing I get to do to help myself. Great!
-Greg Anderson
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I don't weigh a pound over one hundred and eighty and, what's more, I never did.
-Fatty Arbuckle
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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.
-Jean Baudrillard
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Probably nothing in the world arouses more false hopes Than the first four hours of a diet.
-Samuel Beckett
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The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.
-Josh Billings
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Every day the fat woman dies a series of small deaths.
-Shelley Bovey
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I don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money.
-Marlon Brando
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Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god.
-Charles Buck
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Imprisoned in every fat man, a thin one is wildly signaling to be let out.
-Cyril Connolly
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'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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One meal a day is enough for a lion, and it ought to be for a man.
-George Fordyce
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In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
-Benjamin Franklin
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I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant.
-Paul Gauguin
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it's a sex object if you're pretty and no love or love and no sex if you're fat
-Nikki Giovanni
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Thin people are beautiful, but fat people are adorable.
-Jackie Gleason
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A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who lives well.
-Elbert Hubbard
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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
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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
-St. Jerome
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They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.
-Juvenal
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Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression.
-Marshall McLuhan
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Some people are born to fatness. Others have to get there.
-Les Murray
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How easy for those who do not bulge to not overindulge!
-Ogden Nash
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Books about Diets and Dieting
