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"I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is fourteen days." -- Totie Fields "If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner." -- H.S. Leigh "In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires." -- Benjamin Franklin "They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing." -- William Shakespeare "We never repent of having eaten too little." -- Thomas Jefferson, 1825 "History is apt to judge harshly those who sacrifice tomorrow for today." -- Harold MacMillan "Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it." -- Horace "When we lose twenty pounds we may be losing the twenty best pounds we have! We may be losing the pounds that contain our genius, our humanity, our love and honesty." -- Woody Allen "Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork." -- English Proverb "Your stomach shouldn't be a waist basket." -- Unknown Author "A diet is the penalty we pay for exceeding the feed limit." -- Unknown Author "More die in the United States of too much food than of too little." -- John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society "The cardiologist's diet: If it tastes good, spit it out." -- Unknown Author "One should eat to live, not live to eat." -- Cicero, Rhetoricorum LV "In the Middle Ages, they had guillotines, stretch racks, whips and cahins. Nowadays, we have a much more effective torture device called the bathroom scale." -- Stephen Phillips "It's okay to be fat. So you're fat. Just be fat and shut up about it." -- Roseanne Barr "I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on." -- Jean Kerr, "Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall," The Snake Has All the Lines, 1958 "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, Dave Barry Turns 50 "Reality check: you can never, ever, use weight loss to solve problems that are not related to your weight. At your goal weight or not, you still have to live with yourself and deal with your problems. You will still have the same husband, the same job, the same kids, and the same life. Losing weight is not a cure for life." --  Phillip C. McGraw, The Ultimate Weight Solution: The 7 Keys to Weight Loss Freedom, 2003 "The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life." -- Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave "If nature had intended our skeletons to be visible it would have put them on the outside of our bodies." -- Elmer Rice "Avoid any diet that discourages the use of hot fudge." -- Don Kardong "I keep trying to lose weight but it keeps finding me!" -- Unknown Author "I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond." -- Mae West "I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is fourteen days." -- Totie Fields