Quotes about obesity

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

— Kingsley Amis

I don't weigh a pound over one hundred and eighty and, what's 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

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

— Shelley Bovey

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

— Marlon Brando

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

— Cyril Connolly

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

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

— Nikki Giovanni

Thin people are beautiful, but fat people are adorable.

— Jackie Gleason

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.

— Washington Irving

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

— Les Murray

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

— Susie Orbach

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

— Susie Orbach

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.

— Bertrand Russell

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

— William Shakespeare

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.

— William Shakespeare

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

— Source Unknown

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

— Walt Whitman

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

— Ogden Nash