Fat Man Quotes

• A fat man is never so happy as when he is describing himself as "robust.

  George Orwell

  Men, Obesity, Robust

  George Orwell (1976). “The Penguin complete novels of George Orwell”

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• The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Fitness, Running, Fighting

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• Inside every fat man, there's a thin man trying to get out.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Men, Trying, Fats

  "Scorpia Rising". Book by Anthony Horowitz, 2011.

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• You see, to tall men I'm a midget, and to short men I'm a giant; to the skinny ones I'm a fat man, and to the fat ones I'm a thin man.

  Norton Juster

  Men, Skinny, Giants

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.100, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Sometimes love can be so wrong/Like a fat man in a thong.

  John Hiatt

  Men, Sometimes, Time Love

  Song: Terms of my Surrender, 2014

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• If your face is swollen from the severe beatings of life, smile and pretend to be a fat man.

  Chris Cleave

  Men, Faces, Your Face

  Chris Cleave (2012). “Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold”, p.291, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.

  George Orwell

  Men, Weight Loss, Literature

  Coming up For Air (1939) pt. 1, ch. 3. See also Cyril Connolly (3.85)

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• We have so many people who can't see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion that the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one!

  Ronald Reagan

  Men, People, Way

  A Time for Choosing (aka "The Speech"), Air date 27 October 1964, Los Angeles, CA

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• Outside every fat man there is an even fatter man trying to close in.

  Kingsley Amis

  Funny, Food, Men

  'One Fat Englishman' (1963) ch. 3.

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• You're gonna die. You're gonna die. And nobody's gonna care which version of the iPhone you used to make something on Twitter, or to go and post about your bowel movement on Facebook. And I'm not even talking about legacy; I'm talking about the fact that I personally feel most alive when I'm making something, and I feel least alive when I'm being led around by some obnoxious use of my attention that I wasn't aware of. To me, that's the thing. You can buy the jogging shoes and you can buy the Runner's World, but until you put them on and walk out the door every day, you're just a fat man.

  Merlin Mann

  Men, Iphone, Doors

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• I looked at my palms trying to see the other life, the parallel life. The point at which my selves broke away and one married a fat man and the other stayed here.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Men, Self, Trying

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• 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.

  Robert Morley

  Men, Buried, Fats

  Toledo Blade, August 20, 1978.

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• What is spiritual experience? A snowflake melting, a bee sucking honey, a fat man at a traffic light. Trivia.

  Frederick Franck

  Spiritual, Men, Light

  Frederick Franck (1974). “Pilgrimage to now/here”

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• As I look around the West End these days, it seems to me that outside every thin girl is a fat man, trying to get in.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Girl, Men, Trying

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• There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.

  Bertrand Russell

  Funny, Men, Weight Loss

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.370, Routledge

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• Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out.

  Cyril Connolly

  Men, Literature, Fats

  "Cyril Connolly: journal and memoir".

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• Baseball has traditionally possessed a wonderful lack of seriousness. The game's best player, Babe Ruth, was a Rabelaisian fat man, and its most loved manager, Casey Stengel, spoke gibberish. In this lazy sport, only the pitcher pours sweat. Then he takes three days off.

  Thomas Boswell

  Sports, Baseball, Men

  Thomas Boswell (1984). “Why Time Begins on Opening Day”, Doubleday Books

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• I'm fat, but I'm thin inside. Has it ever struck you that there's a thin man inside every fat man, just as they say there's a statue inside every block of stone?

  George Orwell

  Block, Men, Stones

  Coming Up for Air pt. 1, ch. 3 (1939) See Cyril Connolly 3

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• I went to schools that were small enough that basically everyone was in a play. I played a bouncing ball in a production of Alice in Wonderland and a fat man in an Italian commedia dell'arte play. I was given some small chances.

  Lena Dunham

  School, Italian, Men

  Interview with Claire Danes, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 1, 2012.

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• I've had this look for about a year. I usually grow this beard out around Christmas. I like to go to malls dressed as Jesus, and I like to then walk around the mall and go, 'No! No! This wasn't what it was supposed to be about, people!' Then if there's a Santa at the mall, I walk up to him and say, 'Listen, fat man, you're just a clown at my birthday party.'

  Marc Maron

  Funny, Jesus, Party

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• I guess you could say I'm the redemption of the fat man. A guy will be watching me on TV and see that I don't look in any better shape than he is. 'Hey, Maude,' he'll holler. 'Get a load of this guy. And he's a 20-game winner.'

  Mickey Lolich

  Men, Games, Guy

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• I've been vegetarian since the 80s and, lately, even vegan. And I once happened to witness the slaughter of a cow. What atrocity must undergo an animal to satisfy the appetite of those fat
  men who eat hamburgers!

  Anthony Kiedis

  Animal, Men, Atrocities

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• Enclosing every thin man, there's a fat man demanding elbow-room.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Men, Elbows, Rooms

  Evelyn Waugh (1994). “The Sword of Honour Trilogy”

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• She was running from a fat man selling salvation in his hand.

  Huey Lewis

  Running, Religious, Men

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• Hunting Bears is a complex song. A bear, as you know is another term for a chubby chaser. The guitar line is actually the sound of a fat man's thighs rubbing together as he approaches another lardy male for a night of sexual deviance.

  Thom Yorke

  Song, Night, Men

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