Reading Quote by Samuel Butler

Animals feed themselves; men eat; but only wise men know the art of eating

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

I was often humiliated to see men disputing for a piece of bread, just as animals might have done. My feelings on this subject…

— Francois Arago

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

— Alexander Hamilton

Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals

— Will Durant

Do we, as humans, having an ability to reason and to communicate abstract ideas verbally and in writing, and to form ethical and moral…

— Peter Cheeke

I think it indisputable that the distance between the intellectual faculties of different men is greater than that between the same faculties in some…

— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition, has been particularly inclined to abstain…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Animals’ taste systems are specialized for the niche they occupy in the environment. “That’s driven their sensory systems down a certain path,” Rawson says.…

— Mary Roach

There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.

— Bertolt Brecht

Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.

— Henry George

“I think “taste” is a social concept and not an artistic one. I’m willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else’s…

— John Updike

It is nonsense to speak of 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is, rightly, more important that he eat than that…

— W. H. Auden