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.

One should strive to maintain good health by taking balanced diet and exercising regularly – Atharva Veda.

One should eat to live, not live to eat – Cicero.

Avoid any diet that discourages the use of hot fudge – Don Kardong.

A friend doesn’t go on a diet because you are fat – Erma Bombeck.

Food is an important part of a balanced diet – Fran Lebowitz.

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.

My advice if you insist on slimming: Eat as much as you like – just don’t swallow it – Harry Secombe.

The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day, you’re off it – Jackie Gleason.

If you really want to be depressed, weigh yourself in grams – Jason Love.

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.

I’m allergic to food. Every time I eat it breaks out into fat – Jennifer Greene Duncan.

Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie – Jim Davis.

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.

More die in the United States of too much food than of too little – John Kenneth Galbraith.

The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook – Julia Child.

Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow ye diet – Lewis C. Henry.

I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond – Mae West.

Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary! kiss me, and be quiet – Mary Worley Montagu.

I never diet. I smoke. I drink now and then. I never work out. I work very hard, and I am worth every cent – Naomi Campbell.

It’s okay to be fat. So you’re fat. Just be fat and shut up about it – Roseanne Barr.

Hope is a very thin diet – Thomas Shadwell.

I’ve been on a diet for two weeks and all I’ve lost is fourteen days – Totie Fields.

It’s not women’s fault that diets don’t work. It’s not perversity of lack of willpower. God did this – in Her great wisdom – Wayne Callaway.

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.