"O for a plump fat leg of Mutton, Veale, Lambe, Capon, Pigge, and Conney, None is happy but a Glutton, None an Asse bu…"

"There is boiled meat, and roast meat, and meat from the coal, You may chop it, and tear it, and gnash it for fun, An …"

"At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that I am the LORD yo…"

"Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh"

"Some hae meat and canna eat, And some would eat that want it; But we hae meat, and we can eat, And sae the Lord be th…"

"God sends meat, and the Devil sends cooks."

"I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience."

"Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine."

"I didn't squawk about the steak, dear. I merely said I didn't see that old horse that used to be tethered outside here."

"Interiores plerique frumenta non serunt, sed lacte et carne vivunt pellibusque sunt vestiti."