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Quotes About Consumption

An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced.
~ Ayn Rand
Der Mensch ist, was er isst. Man is what he eats.
~ Ludwig Feuerbach
The chicken that we eat is chock-full of feminine hormones. So, when men eat these chickens, they deviate from themselves as men.
~ Evo Morales
The more we take the less we become, the fortune of one man means less for some.
~ Sarah McLachlan
In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.
~ Aldous Huxley
Frogs eat Butterflies, Snakes eat Frogs, Hogs eat Snakes, Men eat Hogs.
~ Wallace Stevens
Insects have their own point of view about civilization a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat.
~ Don Marquis
That's just the point: an honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business goes on eating - and then he eats you up.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Just as modern man consumes both too many calories and calories of no nutritional value, information workers eat data both in excess and from the wrong sources.
~ Tim Ferriss
Advertising nourishes the consuming power of men.
~ Winston Churchill
Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.
~ Charles Darwin
Man has an infinite capacity to rationalize - especially when it comes to what he wants to eat.
~ Cleveland Amory
It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.
~ Adam Smith
I am strongly drawn to a frugal life and am often oppressively aware that I am engrossing an undue amount of the labor of my fellow men.
~ Albert Einstein
The poor man must walk to get meat for his stomach, the rich man to get a stomach to his meat.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Guys you have way too much invested in sport. Guys you are not the tenth man. You're a machine for turning beer into piss that's what you are!
~ Bill Maher
Americans are like Pac Man. We just eat our way through the day. There's always something going into the mouth.
~ Diane Lane
A man who has never been hungry may possess a more refined palate, but he has no idea what it means to eat.
~ Harry Mulisch
Guilt is always hungry, don't let it consume you.
~ Terri Guillemets
Our people have become as processed as our food.
~ Terri Guillemets
appetite of the blank page for ever more information, ever more data. An empty book is a greedy thing.
~ Terry Gross
One-third of Americans have already been forced to change their lifestyle because their disposable income is gone. A guy can't go to the corner bar after a rough day at work to have a beer, that's gone to oil!
~ Terry McAuliffe
Last of his toothpaste, last of his Wheat Chex, last of his 5-Quick-Cinnamon-Rolls-With-Icing, his Pop Secret Microwave Pop- corn, his Deluxe Fudge Brownie Mix next to my Casbah Nutted Pilaf on the sparser shelf, I'm using it all up. Chanting: he'd-want-me- to-he'd-want-me-to. To consume loss like a hydra-headed meal of would-have-dones accompanied by missed-shared-delight. What can I tell you?
~ Tess Gallagher