“The most fun things in life are either immoral, illegal or they make you fat.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
Source: Scott Pilgrim, Volume 2: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
“The most fun things in life are either immoral, illegal or they make you fat.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
“If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, then they can sure make something out of you.”
Muhammad Ali (1942–2016) African American boxer, philanthropist and activist
Variant: Go to College,
Stay in school,
If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread,
they can sure make something out of you.
“Steal a loaf of bread and they hang you, steal a land and they'll make you king.”
David Gemmell book Stormrider
Source: Rigante series, Stormrider, Ch. 5
Kent Hovind (1953) American young Earth creationist
Creation seminars (2003-2005), The Garden of Eden
“Good enough is good enough. Perfect will make you a big fat mess every time.”
Rebecca Wells (1952) American writer
Source: The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder
“Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat.”
Hermann Göring (1893–1946) German politician and military leader
Radio broadcast (1936), as quoted in The New Language of Politics: An Anecdotal Dictionary of Catchwords, Slogans, and Political Usage (1968) by William L. Safire, p. 178
Variants:
Guns will make us strong, butter will only make us fat.
We have no butter... but I ask you, would you rather have butter or guns? Preparedness makes us powerful. Butter merely makes us fat.
Peter Kay (1973) English writer, producer, actor and comedian
[on foreign food]
Live At The Top Of The Tower [2000]
“Enormous? Did you just call me FAT? I am not fat. - Jace”
Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes
City of Ashes
Variant: Enormous? Did you just call me fat?
Montesquieu (1689–1755) French social commentator and political thinker
No. 24. (Rica writing to Ibben)
Lettres Persanes (Persian Letters, 1721)