Diet quotes page 1

Fasting of the body has to be accompanied by fasting of all the senses.
Mahatma Gandhi

I know you're on the Atkins diet, but could you stop eating bacon during sex?
David Letterman

Eat few suppers and you'll need few medicines.
Benjamin Franklin

We never repent of having eaten too little.
Thomas Jefferson

Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating
myself as well as I treat others in every way.
Oprah Winfrey

I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a
diamond.
Mae West

Have you noticed when you go on a diet, the first thing you lose is your temper?
Robert Orben

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
George Orwell

The first law of dietetics seems to be: If it tastes good, it's bad for you.
Isaac Asimov

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

It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.
Margaret Mead

You know, the heart knows how to beat, and the lungs know how to breathe, and the
kidneys know how to process waste. We were born with similar perfection regarding food
appetites and what has happened for the person who is stuck at a compulsion or an addiction
regarding this issue is that that particular brain circuitry has been thrown out of whack. And
this book is a book about the spiritual healing of that non alignment. So that, once again, we
can in an other area of life express the perfection which is natural to us.
Marianne Williamson, A Course in Weight Loss

No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
George Eliot

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

Your body is the baggage you must carry through life. The more excess baggage, the shorter
the trip.
Arnold H. Glasow

I was just reading about the new Lindsay Lohan diet, which is all liquid. 80 proof.
Joan Rivers

An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
Irv Kupcinet

Probably nothing in the world arouses more false hopes than the first hours of a diet.
Dan Bennett

It's okay to be fat. So you're fat. Just be fat and shut up about it.
Roseanne Barr

Nothing in the world arouses more false hopes than the first four hours of a diet.
Nora Ephron

An airline is a great place to diet.
Wolfgang Puck

Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.
Adelle Davis

I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
Totie Fields

You know you're on a diet when cat commercials make you hungry.
Andy Bumatai