Source: The Face on Your Plate (2009), Ch. 2, pp. 79-80
“Of two men sharing with a calf the milk of that calf's mother one eyes the calf with the thought that his tender flesh would provide good meat for him and his friends to feast upon at his approaching birthday. The other thinks of the calf as his brother of the teat and is filled with affection for the young beast and his mother. I say to you, the latter is truly nourished by that calf's meat; while the first is poisoned thereby. Aye, many things are put in the belly that should be put in the heart.”
The Book of Mirdad (1948)
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Mikha'il Na'ima 15
Lebanese writer 1889–1988Related quotes
“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).