Health Tips for the Misguided
Yawn. Things are getting a bit boring round here don’t you think?! Eat your greens blah, blah, blah… Don’t worry, I try not to take myself too seriously so here are a few unconventional health quotes for you to enjoy:-
- Don’t eat me. I have a wife and kids. Eat them.
- My doctor told me to do something that made me slightly out of breath, so I started smoking again.
- Never eat anything at one sitting that you can’t lift.
- The word aerobics comes from two Greek words: aero, meaning “ability to,” and bics, meaning “withstand tremendous boredom.”
- I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in fourteen days I lost two weeks.
- Muscles come and go; flab lasts.
- All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening.
- To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
- Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
- I don’t like food that’s too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I’d buy a painting.
- If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating.
- Your food stamps will be stopped effective March 1992 because we received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply if there is a change in your circumstances.
- Canada has never been a melting pot; more like a tossed salad.
- Eating words has never given me indigestion.
- 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.
- Seafood brought in by customers will not be entertained.
- Eat whatever thou likest, but dress as others do.
- The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
- Eat bread at pleasure, drink wine by measure.
- Avoid fruits and nuts. You are what you eat.
- The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.
- Never invest in anything that eats or needs repairing.
- An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
- Mattie’s Restaurant and Yogurt Palace, “An alternative to Good Eating”
- Homer Simpson
- Jo Brand
- Miss Piggy
- Dave Barry
- Joe E. Lewis
- Bill Vaughan
- Alexander Wolcott
- Gustave Flaubert
- Redd Foxx
- Andy Rooney
- Leigh Hunt
- Department of Social Services, Greenville, South Carolina
- Arnold Edinborough
- Winston Churchill
- George Bush, US president, 1990
- Restaurant sign in Langkawi, Malaysia
- Arab Proverb
- Lucille Ball
- Randle Cotgrave
- Jim Davis (Garfield the Cat)
- Mark Twain
- Billy Rose
- Winston Churchill
- Restaurant Business Card from Decatur, Texas
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December 2nd, 2007 at 5:46 am
Totally mis-titled, they are Words to Live By.
except
# Eating words has never given me indigestion.
- Winston Churchill (probably not true)
# Eat bread at pleasure, drink wine by measure.
- Randle Cotgrave ( he got it backwards)
December 2nd, 2007 at 12:36 pm
# 5 is priceless! Thanks for the laugh.
And #3 is pretty good advice.
December 3rd, 2007 at 7:32 pm
rofl to losing two weeks..these are indeed great finds…bookmarked!
December 3rd, 2007 at 10:50 pm
I’m glad everyone liked it. I had fun putting this post together
December 4th, 2007 at 7:53 am
#1 Classic Homer
#7 I definitely can relate to Mr Wolcott’s words
#14 Humbling words from Mr Churchill
#19 Great advice!
#21 Hitting the nail, as always.
September 20th, 2008 at 10:22 am
Well misguided I was. I have never heard most of them so it was a refreshing read and I think that there should be more posts like this.
I think this is mainly because there is no good content out there. Everyone is trying to be funny, no fun is funny!
September 30th, 2008 at 3:38 am
NEAT! This was quality read.