[Boarding ship =
in a couple hours. Today may NOT be the best day to be =
dieting. So wife shared some “motivation quotations” =
to keep me off the 10-meal a day plan I usually enjoy on =
board.]
"I’m not =
overweight. I’m just nine inches too short."
— Shelley =
Winters
"I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy =
eating, and in fourteen days I had lost two weeks."
— Joe =
E. Lewis
"The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is =
diet books—how not to eat what you’ve just learned how to =
cook."
— Andy Rooney
"Probably nothing in the =
world arouses more false hopes than the first four hours of a =
diet."
— Dan Bennett
"In the Middle Ages, they =
had guillotines, stretch racks, whips, and chains. 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 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
"My wife is a light =
eater. As soon as it’s light, she starts to eat."
— Henny =
Youngman
"I’ve decided that perhaps I’m bulimic and just =
keep forgetting to purge."
— Paula =
Poundstone
"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
"In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my =
words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome =
diet."
— Winston Churchill
"I never worry =
about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats =
in a diamond."
— Mae West
~~
Dr Bob Griffin =
[email protected] =
www.grif.net
"Jesus =
Knows Me, This I Love!"