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Are you familiar with this quotation from Shakespeare, and did you know that "beef-witted" meant stupid?
I was surprised to come across this quotation today. I had never heard it before. Now it reminds me that Archie Bunker called his son-in-law "meat head." What do you think of this idea from Shakespeare's time?
"I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit."
Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Sir Andrew Aguecheek, in Twelfth Night, act 1, sc. 3, l. 85-6.
Eating beef was proverbially linked to being stupid or "beef-witted."
http://quotes.dictionary.com/I_am_a_great_eater_of...
Do you know of any similar quotations?
3 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
George Bernard Shaw was always very outspoken about vegetarianism. Here are a couple of his quotes - "A mind of the calibre of mine cannot derive its nutriment from cows", and "A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses".
- Anonymous1 decade ago
My very most favourite/favorite quote of the Bard is from one of his less-studied Comedies, "Charles IVth", when Cassiopea says to Truncous; "Soil then, upon the boards! I see this is a turd I must o'erstep!"
