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
» ”How easy for those who do not bulge to not overindulge!”
– Ogden Nash
» ”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
