FATNESS

Related Subjects: Flesh, Weight

1. I am resolved to grow fat, and look young till forty.—DRYDEN, The Maiden Queen
   

2. Whoever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs?—no—no, 'tis your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.—WASHINGTON IRVING, Knickerbocker's History of New York
   

3. A fat paunch never breeds fine thoughts.—ST. JEROME
   

4. A soul in a fat body lieth soft, and is loth to rise.—Proverb
   

5. Fat, fair, and forty.—SCOTT, St. Roman's Well
   

6. Let me have men about me that are fat;
   Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep O' nights.
   Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
   He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.—SHAKESPEARE, Julius Caesar
   

7. Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits
   Make rich the ribs, but bankrupt quite the wits.—SHAKESPEARE, Love's Labour's Lost