“An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.” — Irv Kupcinet Quote

“An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.”

“By the time I got to Northwestern University in 1930, I was a football bum more interested in being an All-Star player and signing on with a pro team than going after a newspaper job.”

“As a kid, I'd get up at 3 in the morning during school vacations to help my father on his bakery-truck route. He didn't get a vacation from that schedule.”

“I am on a sugar-free diet. I used to be a sugar addict where I would eat gummy bears and candy when I lived in Europe.”

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

“People have got to learn: if they don't have cookies in the cookie jar, they can't eat cookies.”