Quotes About Weight

An especially good way to gain weight is to have dinner with other people. On average, those who eat with one other person eat about 35 percent more than they do when they are alone; members of a group of four eat about 75 percent more; those in groups of seven or more eat 96 percent more.

The wrong man could have brought it all crashing down," she told him. "A different man might have collapsed under the weight of the responsibility.

Get off me. You weigh more than the doors to your home.

She had what the Councillor knew, in the technical language of the ballet, as ballon, a lightness that is not only the negation of weight, but which actually seems to carry upwards and make for flight, and which is rarely found in thin dancers - as if the matter itself had here become lighter than air, so that the more there is of it the better it works.

Such power, and carried with such careless grace. How that must burden him.

Talking of the local Sheriff, Jake Valentine, tall and skinny and his wife Myra, She was a short woman, maybe five feet tall in her socks, the top of her head not quite reaching Jake's chest. What she lacked in height she made up for in girth. Jeffrey guessed she was at least a hundred pounds overweight. Standing side by side, the Valentines looked like the living embodiment of the number ten.

He had given weight to her life, tied her down to the world when her natural inclination had always been to float above everything, as if it were happening to someone else.

The tradition of past generations weighs like the Alps on the brains of the living.

Fat men get knocked over by buses no earlier, nor later, than thin men. And I, for one, have buried most of my thin friends.

Inside me there is a fat man dying to get out.

All my life I've been an obese man trapped inside a fat man's body.

The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care of supremacy doesn't weigh like a load of jewels.

On the attraction between man and woman society is based; but its refined is greater than its gross force, and its weight is like the gravitation of the globe.

I once had a man break up with me. He said I was using him because right after making love I would weigh myself.

A crown is a pitiless master, harsher than the staff of a pig-keeper; while a staff bears up, a crown weighs down, beyond the strength of any man to wear it lightly.

What makes a man heavy is the gravity of virtue. Without it, man will be so light that he will be drifted in the winds of immorality.

No man weighs his words who has but a moment to live.

One single idea may have greater weight than all the men, animals, and machines for a century.

I know a guy who had his doctor say, "Take some weight off, go to a health club." The man lost 20 pounds in one week! The machine tore his leg off!

Men will tell you sometimes that "money's hard." That shows it was not made to eat, I say.... Some of those who sank with the steamer the other day found out that money was heavy too.

Not two strong men the enormous weight could raise,- Such men as live in these degenerate days.

A man's balance depends on the weight he carries between his legs.

Years ago when a man began to notice that if he stood up on the subway he was immediately replaced by two people, he figured he was getting too fat.

So shall the world go on, To good malignant, to bad men benign, Under her own weight groaning.