Quotes about Obesity

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“Thin people are beautiful, but fat people are adorable.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”