“There are worse things than being fat, and one of them is worrying about it all the time.”
Peg Bracken (1918–2007) American writer
But I Wouldn't Have Missed It for the World! The pleasures and perils of an unseasoned traveler (1973)
from Pansy Hermiones, 2006
2010s
“There are worse things than being fat, and one of them is worrying about it all the time.”
Peg Bracken (1918–2007) American writer
But I Wouldn't Have Missed It for the World! The pleasures and perils of an unseasoned traveler (1973)
“What's worse? Being strung out or being fat?”
Nikki Sixx (1958) American musician
Source: The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star
“Enormous? Did you just call me FAT? I am not fat. - Jace”
Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes
City of Ashes
Variant: Enormous? Did you just call me fat?
“The only thing worse in politics than being wrong is being boring, as Dick Nixon would say.”
Roger Stone (1952) American lobbyist
As quoted by Matt Labash, "Debriefing Mike Murphy" https://www.weeklystandard.com/matt-labash/debriefing-mike-murphy (18 March 2016) The Weekly Standard.
“The world seemed cruel and boring, and I'm not sure which was worse.”
Paul Graham (1964) English programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist
"Why Nerds are Unpopular," February 2003
Enes Kanter (1992) Turkish basketball player
Interview https://twitter.com/ErikHorneOK/status/909508614259445760 with The Oklahoman’s Erik Horne (September 17, 2017); as quoted in "NBA players explain why they are going vegan and vegetarian" https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nba/nba-players-explain-why-they-are-going-vegan-and-vegetarian/ar-AAu21r4, MSN.com (October 25, 2017).
Gena Showalter (1975) American writer
Source: Oh My Goth
“No, I am not pregnant. I am fat. And, as the Prime Minister, its my right to be fat if I want to.”
Benazir Bhutto (1953–2007) 11th Prime Minister of Pakistan
When asked by a journalist if she was pregnant again, as quoted in "Benazir, the steely and vulnerable" by Lyse Doucet in BBC News (29 December 2007) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7163697.stm
Allan Kardec (1804–1869) systematizer of Spiritism
Source: The Spirits' Book, p. 105.
Context: If demons existed, they would be the work of God; but would it he just on the part of God to have created beings condemned eternally to evil and to misery? If demons exist, it is in your low world, and in other worlds of similar degree that they are to be found. They are the human hypocrites who represent a just God as being cruel and vindictive, and who imagine that they make themselves agreeable to Him by the abominations they commit in His name.
“…the British. Haughty, white, fat, ugly, by no means sympathique, cold…”
Anthony Burgess (1917–1993) English writer
Fiction, The Enemy in the Blanket (1958)