Quotes About Dieting

Many of us don’t know what poor losers we are until we try dieting.

— Thomas Lamance

I’m a fat anorexic.

— Kiri Te Kanawa

Americans: People who laugh at African witch doctors and spend a hundred million dollars on fake reducing systems.

— Leonard Louis Levine

The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth — something very difficult for a politician.  Or watch your food — just watch it, don’t eat it.

— Edward I. Koch

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

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

— Benjamin Franklin

One must eat to live, not live to eat.

— Moliere

O! that this too solid flesh would melt...

— William Shakespeare

Everything I like is either illegal, immoral, or fattening.

— Alexander Woolcott (attrib.)

What some people call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than disease.

— George Dennison Prentice

The appetite grows by eating.

— Francois Rabelais

The popular concept of a strengthening diet is a chicken wrung out in hot water.

— Martin Fischer

Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs?

— Washington Irving

I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in fourteen days I lost two weeks.

— Joe E. Lewis

Those magazine dieting stories always have the testimonial of a woman who wore a dress that could slipcover New Jersey in one photo and thirty days later looked like a well-dressed thermometer.

— Erma Bombeck

Another good reducing exercise consists in placing both hands against the table edge and pushing back.

— Robert Quillen

From the day on which she weighs 140, the chief excitement of a woman’s life consists in spotting women who are fatter than she is.

— Helen Rowland

I cannot but bless the memory of Julius Caesar, for the great esteem he expressed for fat men, and his aversion to lean ones.

— David Hume

She’s so fat she’s my two best friends.  She wears stretch caftans. She’s got more chins than the Chinese telephone directory.

— Joan Rivers

Americans like fat books and thin women.

— Russell Baker

All real men love to eat.

— Marlene Dietrich

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.

— Mark Twain