Mutton Quotes

• Gradually, by selective breeding, the congenital differences between rulers
  and ruled will increase until they become almost different species. A revolt
  of the plebs would become as unthinkable as an organized insurrection of
  sheep against the practice of eating mutton.

  Bertrand Russell

  Sheep, Practice, Differences

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Impact of Science On Society”, p.44, Lulu Press, Inc

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• My manner of living is plain and I do not mean to be put out of it. A glass of wine and a bit of mutton are always ready.

  George Washington

  Food, Wine, Mean

  George Washington (1835). “The writings of George Washington: being his correspondence, addresses, messages, and other papers, official and private, selected and published from the original manuscripts; with a life of the author, notes, and illustrations”, p.177

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• If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef-tea or mutton, even under medical advice, I would prefer death.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Advice, Tea, Beef

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• The real fact is that I could no longer stand their eternal cold mutton.

  Cecil Rhodes

  Funny, Real, Humor

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• To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton tallow and quick lime. Distill this over a charcoal fire, and the liquid which results can be burned on the face without harm.

  Harry Houdini

  Fire, Flames, Together

  Harry Houdini (2015). “Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: Human Understanding”, p.41, 谷月社

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• Even that was all consumed after two days, and the patients had to try to choke down fresh fish, just boiled in water, without salt, pepper or butter; mutton, beef, and potatoes without the faintest seasoning

  Nellie Bly

  Two, Water, Trying

  Nellie Bly (2015). “10 Days in a Madhouse (Annotated)”, p.66, Golgotha Press

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• A man of sense and education should meet a suitable companion in a wife. It is a miserable thing when the conversation can only be such as whether the mutton should be boiled or roasted, and probably a dispute about that.

  Samuel Johnson

  Marriage, Men, Wife

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.172

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• There is no need for the writer to eat a whole sheep to be able to tell you what mutton tastes like. It is enough if he eats a cutlet. But he should do that.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Sheep, Needs, Able

  W. Somerset Maugham (2011). “A Writer's Notebook”, p.230, Random House

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• 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 Joyce

  Food, Heart, Fowl

  Ulysses (1922) p. 53

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• My manner of living is plain. I do not mean to be put out of it. A glass of wine and a bit of mutton are always ready; and such as will be content to partake of them are always welcome. Those, who expect more, will be disappointed, but no change will be effected by it.

  George Washington

  Wine, Mean, Glasses

  George Washington (1835). “The writings of George Washington: being his correspondence, addresses, messages, and other papers, official and private, selected and published from the original manuscripts; with a life of the author, notes, and illustrations”, p.177

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• Of three things be wary- of a feather on a cat, The shepherd eating mutton, And a guardsman that is fat.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Cat, Shepherds, Three

  Mercedes Lackey (2015). “The Complete Arrows Trilogy”, p.570, Penguin

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• Death. To die. To expire. To pass on. To perish. To peg out. To push up daisies. To push up posies. To become extinct. Curtains, deceased, Demised, departed And defunct. Dead as a doornail. Dead as a herring. Dead as a mutton. Dead as nits. The last breath. Paying a debt to nature. The big sleep. God's way of saying, "Slow down."

  Patch Adams

  Sleep, Departed, Debt

  "Fictional character: Hunter Patch Adams". "Patch Adams", www.imdb.com. 1998.

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• I find it easier to believe in God than to believe Hamlet was deduced from the molecular structure of a mutton chop.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Believe, Easier, Structure

  William F. Buckley Jr. (2010). “Athwart History: Half a Century of Polemics, Animadversions, and Illuminations: A William F. Buckley Jr. Omnibus”, p.530, Encounter Books

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• I could not conjure up one melancholy fancy upon a mutton chop and a glass of champagne.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Wine, Glasses, Fancy

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.99, Jerome K. Jerome

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• Wolverine was created in the '60s, but he feels like a '70s character in every way. More Dirty Harry, more politically incorrect, the hair, the mutton chops.

  Hugh Jackman

  Dirty, Character, Hair

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• A writer need not devour a whole sheep in order to know what mutton tastes like, but he must at least eat a chop. Unless he gets his facts right, his imagination will lead him into all kinds of nonsense, and the facts he is most likely to get right are the facts of his own experience.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Sheep, Order, Imagination

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• ... man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows. I know we must all err. I would give up milk if I could, but I cannot. I have made that experiment times without number. I could not, after a serious illness, regain my strength, unless I went back to milk. That has been the tragedy of my life. But the basis of my vegetarianism is not physical, but moral. If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef tea or mutton, even on medical advice, I would prefer death. That is the basis of my vegetarianism.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Giving Up, Animal, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• In fact a favourite problem of Tyndall is-Given the molecular forces in a mutton chop, deduce Hamlet or Faust therefrom. He is confident that the Physics of the Future will solve this easily.

  Thomas Huxley

  Science, Facts, Literature

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• Each person bears a fear which is special to him. One man fears a close space and another man fears drowning; each laughs at the other and calls him stupid. Thus fear is only a preference, to be counted the same as the preference for one woman or another, or mutton for pig, or cabbage for onion.

  Michael Crichton

  Fear, Stupid, Men

  Michael Crichton (1997). “The 13th Warrior.: The Manuscript of Ibn Fadlan, Relating His Experiences with the Northmen in A.D. 922.”

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• Some People are not to be persuaded to taste of any Creatures they have daily seen and been acquainted with, while they were alive; others extend their Scruple no further than to their own Poultry, and refuse to eat what they fed and took care of themselves; yet all of them will feed heartily and without Remorse on Beef, Mutton and Fowls when they are bought in the Market.

  Bernard de Mandeville

  People, Beef, Alive

  "The Fable of the Bees". Book by Bernard Mandeville. Remark P, pp. 188-189, 1732.

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• You can get a large audience together for a strip-tease act—that is, to watch a girl undress on the stage. Now suppose you come to a country where you could fill a theatre by simply bringing a covered plate on to the stage and then slowly lifting the cover so as to let every one see, just before the lights went out, that it contained a mutton chop or a bit of bacon, would you not think that in that country something had gone wrong with the appetite for food?

  C. S. Lewis

  Girl, Country, Thinking

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.88, HarperCollins UK

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• I've always maintained that there is a very fine line between a daring, sexy older woman and mutton dressed as lamb.

  Joan Collins

  Sexy, Lambs, Lines

  Joan Collins (2012). “The World According to Joan”, p.40, Hachette UK

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• But beef is rare within these oxless isles; Goat's flesh there is, no doubt, and kid, and mutton; And, when a holiday upon them smiles, A joint upon their barbarous spits they put on.

  Lord Byron

  Food, Kids, Holiday

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.71, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I have supped mead with lords and ladies; so to have I slumbered in nameless lanes and gored upon mutton.

  Dusty Rhodes

  Lords And Ladies, Superstar, Lanes

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• In a badly designed book, the letters mill and stand like starving horses in a field. In a book designed by rote, they sit like stale bread and mutton on the page. In a well-made book, where designer, compositor and printer have all done their jobs, no matter how many thousands of lines and pages, the letters are alive. They dance in their seats. Sometimes they rise and dance in the margins and aisles.

  Robert Bringhurst

  Horse, Jobs, Book

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