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