Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Diets And Dieting.
To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.
Josh Billings
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
The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they embrace.
Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
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
Probably nothing in the world arouses more false hopes Than the first four hours of a diet.
Samuel Beckett
I don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money.
Marlon Brando
Every day the fat woman dies a series of small deaths.
Shelley Bovey
Fat is a social disease, and fat is a feminist issue.
Susie Orbach
Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial.
I don't weigh a pound over one hundred and eighty and, what's more, I never did.
Fatty Arbuckle
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
They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.
Juvenal
Obesity is a condition which proves that the Lord does not help those who help themselves and help themselves and help themselves.
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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
To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.
Naomi Wolf
One meal a day is enough for a lion, and it ought to be for a man.
George Fordyce
'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
William Shakespeare
Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty.
