Diet -christiansquoting.org.uk

He who stuffeth, puffeth.

One day I will diet. The other 364 I'll eat what I like.

If you are going to be thin you will have to be hungry the rest of your life.

Eat right. Stay fit. Die anyway.

Dieting is wishful shrinking.

Dieting is a losing battle.

A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst, for they are sticking to their diets.

Tubby or not tubby, fat is the question! -- Sign in a Belfast slimming clinic

Use three physicians still:
First Doctor Quiet,
Then Doctor Merryman,
And Doctor Diet.
Cited by Robertson Davies in a letter (Nov. 3, 1986) to Margaret Laurence & identified only as "old medieval medical advice."

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. Covert Bailey

It is not fatness; it is development.-- Ingrid Bergman, on her middle-age spread, @ 20 years ago

One sits the whole day at the desk and appetite is standing next to me. 'Away with you,' I say. But Comrade Appetite does not budge from the spot. - Leonid Brezhnev (1906 &endash; 1982)

I'm trying to lose some weight so I've gone on a garlic diet. You eat garlic with everything. It doesn't make you lose any weight but people stand further back and you look thinner at a distance. ~ Noel Britton.

Sweets are the destiny that shapes our ends. - Andy Chap's Funnies

The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook. -- Julia Child

The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it. -- Jackie Gleason

The three words women most want to hear from a man are, "You lost weight"- Lori Gottlieb

Äs God's Word is food for our spirit. Being spiritually skinny is not attractive to God. -- Ron Haithcock

Food is an important part of a balanced diet. -- Fran Lebowitz

"It's true that a good diet is the best medicine when it suits the individual, but to live medically is to live wretchedly." Then he related some examples of deceased persons who starved themselves to death on the advice of their physicians. "I eat what I like and will die when God wills it."-- Luther's Tabletalk from No.3801

I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.- John Mortimer

I am not fat. I am pleasantly plump -- Obelix the Gaul.

Dieting is a way of starving to death so you can live longer. --Bob Phillips

I'm on a new tranquilizer diet. I haven't lost an ounce, but I don't care. -- Bob Phillips

I highly recommend worrying. It is much more effective than dieting. --William Powell

I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight. -- Rita Rudner

Let me have men about me that are fat;
Sleek-headed men and such as sleep o' nights.
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)_Julius Caesar_ [1599], Act I, Scene ii, Line 191

Thou seest I have more flesh than another man and therefore more fraility ~William Shakespeare 1564-1616, Henry IV (1597)

Health food makes me sick. -- Calvin Trillin

A diet is when you have to go to some length to change your width. -- Wit & Wisdom