英語名人名言:飲食Food/Dieting

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Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
    —— Anonymous
    I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat people.
    —— Ed Bluestone
    I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
    —— George Bush, U.S. president, 1990
    Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
    —— Lord Byron
    Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
    —— John Cage
    I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
    —— Katherine Cebrian
    C is for cookie, it's good enough for me; oh cookie cookie cookie starts with C.
    —— Cookie Monster, character on “Sesame Street,” U.S. children's television program
    I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.
    —— Rodney Dangerfield
    The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
    —— Jackie Gleason
    My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
    —— Buddy Hackett
    He who does not mind his belly will hardly will hardly mind anything else.
    —— Samuel Johnson
    Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana……The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't remember what they are.
    —— Matt Lauer, on NBC's “Today” show, August 22, 1996
    I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, “I'd like some fries.” The girl at the counter said, “Would you like some fries with that?”
    —— Jay Leno
    Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
    —— Groucho Marx
    Never eat more than you can lift.
    —— Miss Piggy, character on “The Muppet Show,” U.S. television show
    The west wasn't won on salad.
    —— ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990
    I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that M&Ms really do melt in your hand……
    —— Peter Oakley
    No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
    —— Channing Pollack
    Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
    —— Rita Rudner
    A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
    —— Elsa Schiapirelli
    There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
    —— George Bernard Shaw
    Health food makes me sick.
    —— Calvin Trillin
    The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for 30 years she served nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
    —— Calvin Trillin
    One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
    —— Virginia Woolf