Quotes about obesity

"Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in."

Amis, Kingsley on obesity   

"I don't weigh a pound over one hundred and eighty and, what's more, I never did."

Arbuckle, Fatty on obesity   

"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."

Baudrillard, Jean on obesity   

"Every day the fat woman dies a series of small deaths."

Bovey, Shelley on obesity   

"I don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money."

Brando, Marlon on obesity   

"Imprisoned in every fat man, a thin one is wildly signaling to be let out."

Connolly, Cyril on obesity   

"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."

Gauguin, Paul on obesity   

"it's a sex object if you're pretty and no love or love and no sex if you're fat"

Giovanni, Nikki on obesity
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"Thin people are beautiful, but fat people are adorable."

Gleason, Jackie on obesity   

"Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No -- no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears."

Irving, Washington on obesity   

"Some people are born to fatness. Others have to get there."

Murray, Les on obesity   

"How easy for those who do not bulge to not overindulge!"

Nash, Ogden on obesity   

"Fat is a social disease, and fat is a feminist issue."

Orbach, Susie on obesity   

"Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial."

Orbach, Susie on obesity   

"There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less."

Russell, Bertrand on obesity   

"Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty."

Shakespeare, William on obesity   

"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."

Shakespeare, William on obesity   

"Obesity is a condition which proves that the Lord does not help those who help themselves and help themselves and help themselves."

Unknown, Source on obesity   

"I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones."

Whitman, Walt on obesity