
Source: The Face on Your Plate (2009), Ch. 2, pp. 79-80
The Book of Mirdad (1948)
Source: The Face on Your Plate (2009), Ch. 2, pp. 79-80
“The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.”
"Scrolls".
Without Feathers (1975)
“You can't expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over the prodigal's return.”
"Reginald on the Academy"
Reginald (1904)
“A cow couldn't find its calf in this room.”
From his sketchbook
“He cannot manage the calf, and wants to carry the ox.”
Act I, scene II. — (Fesserio).
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 377.
La Calandria (c. 1507)
“For every one feels to what purpose he can use his own powers. Before the horns of a calf appear and sprout from his forehead, he butts with them when angry, and pushes passionately.”
Sentit enim vis quisque suas quoad possit abuti.
cornua nata prius vitulo quam frontibus extent,
illis iratus petit atque infestus inurget.
Book V, lines 1033–1035 (tr. Bailey)
De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)
Quoted in Joanne Stepaniak, The Vegan Sourcebook, Los Angeles: Lowell House, 1998, p. 40.
The Calf-Path http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Calf_Path, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).