A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
—Christopher Morley
If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
—James Madison
Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.
—Samuel Johnson
Things are more like they are now than they have ever been.
—Gerald R. Ford
Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that is often perfectly respectable in legitimate business.
—Robert Rice
In the Fiji islands, it appears, cannibalism is now familiar. They eat their own wives and children. We only devour widows' houses, and great merchants outwit and absorb the substance of small ones, and every man feeds on his neighbor's labor if he can. It is a milder form of cannibalism.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide.
—Eric Sevareid
Man does not live by bread alone, but he also does not live long without it.
—Frederick Buechner
Man does not live by bread alone.
—Moses
Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more space we'll take up, and the more we'll have to be reckoned with. I think every woman should be fat like me.
—Roseanne Barr
You can never get enough of what you don't really want.
—Eric Hoffer
Eating is never so simple as hunger.
—Erica Jong
If one doesn't have a character like Abraham Lincoln or Joan of Arc, a diet simply disintegrates into eating exactly what you want to eat, but with a bad conscience.
—Maria Augusta Trapp
The toughest part of being on a diet is shutting up about it.
—Gerland Nachman
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
—Bertolt Brecht