Food/Dieting

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

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