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I sacrifice to no god save myself — And to my belly, greatest of deities.
Euripides481–407 BCCyclops, ll. 334–335 (ed. B. E. Stevenson, 1948)
I’ve been on a diet for two weeks and all I’ve lost is two weeks.
TFTotie Fields1930–1978
I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Poor Richard’s Almanack
I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage⁠—an inexorable demand⁠—that we should cease to kill our fellow-creatures for satisfaction of our bodily wants.
Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948Speech at Meeting in Lausanne (8 December 1931), in The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi (New Delhi: Publications Division Government of India, 1999 electronic edition), Volume 54, p. 272.
- Animals
There he got out the luncheon-basket and packed a simple meal, in which, remembering the stranger’s origin and preferences, he took care to include a yard of long French bread, a sausage out of which the garlic sang, some cheese which lay down and cried, and a long-necked straw-covered flask wherein lay bottled sunshine shed and garnered on far Southern slopes.
Kenneth Grahame1859–1932The Wind in the Willows (1908), Chapter IXIn context
Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III (7 April 1779)
I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784Life of Johnson (Boswell) (1763)
OATS — A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)
- Clever Jabs
Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods’ roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine.
James Joyce1882–1941Ulysses (1922), Part II, Episode 4In context
Now at last I can look at you in peace, I don’t eat you anymore.
Franz Kafka1883–1924To a fish, after he became a vegetarian; as quoted in Max Brod, Franz Kafka: A Biography (1960), p. 74
- Animals
The trouble with modern cooking is that the mood it induces in the cook is one of skin-of-the-teeth efficiency, all briskness and little pleasure.
Nigella Lawsonborn 1960How to be a Domestic Goddess (2000), quoted by Hadley Freeman in “Nigella Lawson: ‘I didn’t think I’d be a mended person, but I am’”, The Guardian (10 October 2020).
They dinèd on mince, and slices of quince,
Which they ate with a runcible spoon;
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon,
The moon,
The moon,
They danced by the light of the moon.
Edward Lear1812–1888The Owl and the Pussy-Cat (1870)In context
- Dancing
My favorite animal is steak.
Fran Lebowitzborn 1950
Isn’t it funny
How a bear likes honey?
Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!
I wonder why he does?
A. A. Milne1882–1956Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), Chapter IIn context
- Animals
Pooh always liked a little something at eleven o’clock in the morning, and he was very glad to see Rabbit getting out the plates and mugs; and when Rabbit said, “Honey or condensed milk with your bread?” he was so excited that he said, “Both,” and then, so as not to seem greedy, he added, “But don’t bother about the bread, please.”
A. A. Milne1882–1956Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), Chapter IIIn context
- Comedy