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Meat Proverbs

Quotations about Meat

Meat eaten without either mirth or music is ill of digestion. ~ Sir Walter Scott

I eat everything that nature voluntarily gives: fruits, vegetables, and the products of plants. But I ask you to spare me what animals are forced to surrender: meat, milk, and cheese. ~ Author Unknown

Cutting meat out of your diet is the best thing you can do for animals and your own health. ~ Joan Jett

Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat. ~ Fran Lebwitz

Tongue – a variety of meat, rarely served because it clearly crosses the line between a cut of beef and a piece of a dead cow. ~ Bob Ekstrom

The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live. ~ Confucius

Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that’s bad for you! ~ Tommy Smothers

They claim red meat is bad for you. But I never saw a sick-looking tiger. ~ Chi Chi Rodriguez

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert. ~ B. C. Forbes

Nothing spoils lunch any quicker than a rogue meatball rampaging through your spaghetti. ~ Jim Davis

Some have meat, and cannot eat, and some cannot eat that want it; but we have meat, and we can eat – And let the Lord be thanked. ~ Robert Burns

I think if you want to eat more meat you should kill it yourself and eat it raw so that you are not blinded by the hypocrisy of having it processed for you. ~ Margi Clark

I do not like eating meat because I have seen lambs and pigs killed. I saw and felt their pain. They felt the approaching death. I could not bear it. I cried like a child. I ran up a hill and could not breathe. I felt that I was choking. I felt the death of the lamb. ~ Vaslav Nijinsky

All normal people love meat. If I went to a barbeque and there was no meat, I would say, “Yo Goober! Where’s the meat?” I’m trying to impress people here, Lisa. You don’t win friends with salad. ~ Matt Groening

Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread, and meat. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral. ~ Leo Tolstoy

Tis not the meat, but ’tis the appetite makes eating a delight. ~ John Suckling

Doctors confuse color and chemistry. The white meat of chicken is therefore the essence of a light diet and dark meat is poison. ~ Martin H. Fischer

Meat is an inefficient way to eat. An acre of land can yield 20,000 pounds of potatoes, but that same acre would only graze enough cows to get 165 pounds of meat. ~ Alexandra Paul

Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct. ~ Denis Leary

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. ~ William Shakespeare

It is not the quantity of the meat, but the cheerfulness of the guests, which makes the feast. ~ Edward Hyde

Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal. ~ Ingrid Newkirk

If you knew how meat was made, you’d probably lose your lunch. ~ k.d. lang


Sayings about Meat

Much meat, much disease. ~ Traditional Proverb

A sleeping fox finds no meat. ~ Brazilian Proverb

The best soup is made of old meat. ~ French Proverb

The tears of the roasting meat kindle the fire even more. ~ Iranian Proverb

If you buy cheap meat, you’ll smell what you have saved when it boils. ~ Arabian Proverb

The poor eat meat when they bite their tongues. ~ Brazilian Proverb

When do we have a day of fast? When there is no bread and ham in the larder. ~ Gypsy Proverb

The tongue is the worst piece of meat in the world. ~ Swiss Proverbs

He who shares the meat is always left with the bone. ~ Finnish Proverbs

You cannot have the bacon and the pig at the same time. ~ French Proverb

Look and keep silent, and if you are eating meat, tell the world it’s fish. ~ Arabian Proverb

The soup would be none the worse for more meat. ~ Sudanese Proverbs

One man’s meat is another man’s poison. ~ Traditional Proverb

The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat. ~ Jamaican Proverb

The earth is a giant cooking pot and men are the meat therein. ~ Malagasy Proverb

Look not at thieves eating meat, but look at them suffering punishment. ~ Chinese Proverb

The hunter who always comes home with meat is a thief. ~ Bantu Proverb

That smells bad, said the cat about meat that it cannot reach. ~ Iranian Proverb

Honor goes to God; the priests get the bacon. ~ Russian Proverb

You can’t have meat without the bone. ~ Sicilian Proverb

God sends us the meat, but it is the Devil who sends us cooks. ~ Italian Proverbs

After meat comes mustard. ~ Dutch Proverbs

Even the thinnest piece of meat will happily marry a piece of bread. ~ Turkish Proverbs

Do not let the cat watch over the bacon. ~ Iranian Proverbs

Before one cooks, one must have the meat. ~ Mauritanian Proverb

He is truly hungry who accepts defeat in a fight over meat. ~ Malagasy Proverb

You catch the mice with bacon. ~ German Proverbs

The bone given to you by the king is meat. ~ Namibian Proverb

A hungry man smells meat far. ~ Scottish Proverbs

The talker will lead the dog to the meat market. ~ Bugandan Proverb

Cheap meat never makes a good soup. ~ Azerbaijani Proverb

Better dry bread in peacetime than meat in wartime. ~ Hungarian Proverb

A cat always knows whose meat it eats. ~ Russian Proverbs

Quotations about Meat

Meat eaten without either mirth or music is ill of digestion. ~ Sir Walter Scott

I eat everything that nature voluntarily gives: fruits, vegetables, and the products of plants. But I ask you to spare me what animals are forced to surrender: meat, milk, and cheese. ~ Author Unknown

Cutting meat out of your diet is the best thing you can do for animals and your own health. ~ Joan Jett

Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat. ~ Fran Lebwitz

Tongue – a variety of meat, rarely served because it clearly crosses the line between a cut of beef and a piece of a dead cow. ~ Bob Ekstrom

The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live. ~ Confucius

Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that’s bad for you! ~ Tommy Smothers

They claim red meat is bad for you. But I never saw a sick-looking tiger. ~ Chi Chi Rodriguez

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert. ~ B. C. Forbes

Nothing spoils lunch any quicker than a rogue meatball rampaging through your spaghetti. ~ Jim Davis

Some have meat, and cannot eat, and some cannot eat that want it; but we have meat, and we can eat – And let the Lord be thanked. ~ Robert Burns

I think if you want to eat more meat you should kill it yourself and eat it raw so that you are not blinded by the hypocrisy of having it processed for you. ~ Margi Clark

I do not like eating meat because I have seen lambs and pigs killed. I saw and felt their pain. They felt the approaching death. I could not bear it. I cried like a child. I ran up a hill and could not breathe. I felt that I was choking. I felt the death of the lamb. ~ Vaslav Nijinsky

All normal people love meat. If I went to a barbeque and there was no meat, I would say, “Yo Goober! Where’s the meat?” I’m trying to impress people here, Lisa. You don’t win friends with salad. ~ Matt Groening

Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread, and meat. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral. ~ Leo Tolstoy

Tis not the meat, but ’tis the appetite makes eating a delight. ~ John Suckling

Doctors confuse color and chemistry. The white meat of chicken is therefore the essence of a light diet and dark meat is poison. ~ Martin H. Fischer

Meat is an inefficient way to eat. An acre of land can yield 20,000 pounds of potatoes, but that same acre would only graze enough cows to get 165 pounds of meat. ~ Alexandra Paul

Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct. ~ Denis Leary

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. ~ William Shakespeare

It is not the quantity of the meat, but the cheerfulness of the guests, which makes the feast. ~ Edward Hyde

Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal. ~ Ingrid Newkirk

If you knew how meat was made, you’d probably lose your lunch. ~ k.d. lang

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