Diet A Weigh of Life

Don't let dieting weigh you down. Stay upbeat about your dieting goals with these humorous diet-related quotes. In every edition of the Quick and Healthy Recipes newsletter, we will feature a funny dieting-related quote. Be the first one each week to guess who said which quote!

Table of Contents

August
July
June
May
April
March

August

August 18, 2010
"You can never have enough garlic. With enough garlic, you can eat The New York Times."

August 11, 2010
"You better cut the pizza in four pieces, because I'm not hungry enough to eat six."
- Yogi Berra
 

August 4, 2010
"It's okay to be fat. So you're fat. Just be fat and shut up about it."
- Roseanne Barr

July

July 28, 2010
"Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour."
-William Shakespeare
 

July 21, 2010
"I never eat sushi. I have trouble eating things that are merely unconscious."
- George Carlin

July 14, 2010
"The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again."
- George Miller 
 

July 7, 2010
“Food is an important part of a balanced diet."
- Fran Lebowitz
 

June

June 30, 2010
“At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind."
- Michael Pollan

June 23, 2010
“It's easy to identify people who can't count to ten. They're in front of you in the supermarket express lane."
- M. Grundler
 

June 16, 2010
"My fat scares me - it's a ticking time bomb."
- Carrie Latet

June 9, 2010
“The trouble with jogging is that by the time you realize you're not in shape for it, it's too far to walk back."
  -Franklin P. Jones


June 2, 2010
“It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician."
- Meryl Streep

May

May 26, 2010
“Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education."
-Mark Twain

May 19, 2010
“I really don't think I need buns of steel. I'd be happy with buns of cinnamon."
- Ellen DeGeneres
 

May 12, 2010
“My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So for today, I have finished 2 bags of M&Ms and a chocolate cake. I feel better already."
- Dave Barry
 

May 5, 2010
“Chemically speaking, chocolate really is the world's perfect food.”
-Michael Levine

April
 

April 28, 2010
“I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.”
- Totie Fields

April 21, 2010
“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

April 14, 2010
"Hunger is the best sauce"
-Miguel de Cervantes
 

April 7, 2010
"Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that's bad for you!"
– Tommy Smothers

March

March 31, 2010
"My doctor recently told me that jogging could add years to my life. I think he was right. I feel ten years older already."
– Milton Berle
 

March 24, 2010
"I like rice. Rice is great if you're hungry and want 2,000 of something."
– Mitch Hedberg