Dieting Quotes

• Avoid fruits and nuts. You are what you eat.

  Jim Davis

  Funny, Hilarious, Witty

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• Your diet is a bank account. Good food choices are good investments.

  Bethenny Frankel

  Choices, Investment, Good Food

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• The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight, because by then your body and your fat are really good friends.

  Bob Hope

  Good Friend, Weight Loss, Body

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• Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Wise, Health, Weight Loss

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• If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner

  Henry Sambrooke Leigh

  Fitness, Food, Weight Loss

  Henry Sambrooke Leigh (1869). “Carols of Cockayne”, p.186

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• One should eat to live, not live to eat.

  Moliere

  Inspiring, Food, Weight Loss

  1668 L' Avare, act 3, sc.1.

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• Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

  Michael Pollan

  Food, Eating Well, Too Much

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defence of Food: The Myth of Nutrition and the Pleasures of Eating”, Penguin UK

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  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.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Running, Loss, Office

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• Dieting on New Year's Day isn't a good idea as you can't eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second.

  Helen Fielding

  New Year, Hangover, Thinking

  Helen Fielding (2013). “The Bridget Jones Omnibus: The Singleton Years: Bridget Jones's Diary & The Edge of Reason”, p.14, Pan Macmillan

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• Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we may diet.

  Cathy Hopkins

  Death, Drinking, Beer

  Cathy Hopkins (2007). “Mates, Dates and Chocolate Cheats”, p.13, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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• I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.

  Mae West

  Food, Humor, Sassy

  "The wit and wisdom of Mae West".

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• Gluttony is not a secret vice.

  Orson Welles

  Food, Cooking, Secret

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• Pasta doesn't make you fat. How much pasta you eat makes you fat.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Pasta, Funny Diet, Fats

  "Giada De Laurentiis' slim-cooking secrets". Interview with Alison Prato, www.health.com. February 4, 2013.

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• I told my doctor I get very tired when I go on a diet, so he gave me pep pills. Know what happened? I ate faster.

  Joe E. Lewis

  Tired, Doctors, Pills

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• My wife is a light eater. As soon as it's light, she starts to eat.

  Henny Youngman

  Weight Loss, Light, Wife

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• I've decided that perhaps I'm bulimic and just keep forgetting to purge.

  Paula Poundstone

  Exercise, Weight, Forget

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• Albert Einstein, who discovered that a tiny amount of mass is equal to a huge amount of energy, which explains why, as Einstein himself so eloquently put it in a famous 1939 speech to the Physics Department at Princeton, 'You have to exercise for a week to work off the thigh fat from a single Snickers.'

  Dave Barry

  Exercise, Snickers, Tiny

  Dave Barry (1999). “Dave Barry Turns 50”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

  St. Jerome

  Food, Perspective, Catholic

  St. Jerome (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)”, p.248, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Witty, Inspirational Life

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.9, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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

  Julia Child

  Funny, Food, Vegetables

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• In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.

  Erma Bombeck

  Loss, Two, Pounds

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

  Margaret Mead

  Inspirational, Motivational, Food

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• I never touch sugar, cheese, bread... I only like what I'm allowed to like. I'm beyond temptation. There is no weakness. When I see tons of food in the studio, for us and for everybody, for me it's as if this stuff was made out of plastic. The idea doesn't even enter my mind that a human being could put that into their mouth. I'm like the animals in the forest. They don't touch what they cannot eat.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Animal, Ideas, Temptation

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• That's life. The older you get, the tougher it is to score.

  Bob Hope

  Golf, Weight Loss, Funny Diet

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• A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.

  Barbara Johnson

  Food, Weight Loss, Dessert First

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Leaking Laffs Between Pampers and Depends”, p.67, Thomas Nelson Inc

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