Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth. – Proverb
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
Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in. – Kingsley Amis
Changing our diet is something we choose to do, not something we are forced to do. Instead of dreading it, try saying, Heres another thing I get to do to help myself. Great! – Greg Anderson
I dont weigh a pound over one hundred and eighty and, whats more, I never did. – Fatty Arbuckle
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
The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide. – Josh Billings
Every day the fat woman dies a series of small deaths. – Shelley Bovey
Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god. – Charles Buck
Imprisoned in every fat man, a thin one is wildly signaling to be let out. – Cyril Connolly
Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
One meal a day is enough for a lion, and it ought to be for a man. – George Fordyce
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
its a sex object if youre pretty and no love or love and no sex if youre fat – Nikki Giovanni
Thin people are beautiful, but fat people are adorable. – Jackie Gleason
A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who lives well. – Elbert Hubbard
They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live. – Juvenal
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
Some people are born to fatness. Others have to get there. – Les Murray
How easy for those who do not bulge to not overindulge! – Ogden Nash
