The Fun of Getting Thin: How to Be Happy and Reduce the Waist Line

· 1947

A fat man is a joke; and a fat woman is two jokes--one on herself and the other on her husband. Half the comedy in the world is predicated on the paunch. At that, the human race is divided into but two classes--fat people who are trying to get thin and thin people who are trying to get fat. Fat, the doctors say, is fatal. I move to amend by striking out the last two letters of the indictment. Fat is fat. It isn't any more fatal to be reasonably fat than to be reasonably thin, but it's a darned sight more uncomfortable. So far as being unreasonably thin or unreasonably fat is concerned, I suppose the thin person has the long end of it. I never was thin, so I don't know. However, I have been …

Read free

Your support pays for translating these classics into more languages.

Support for $12/month DonateSubscribers read with instant translation, without waiting for the free daily limit.

Lindy Books — 78,696 public-domain classics, free forever. No ads, no accounts, no tracking. Browse the library