Q: Should we avoid eating meat, since it entails killing?

Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.

—Unknown

Humankind — despite its artistic pretensions, its sophistication, and its many accomplishments — owes its existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.

—Unknown

Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.

—Unknown

What if this weren't a hypothetical question?

—Unknown

God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.

—Unknown

I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.

—Rita Rudner

I am a vegetarian. I'm not strict. I eat fish. And duck, but they're nearly fish, aren't they? . . . And pigs, cows, sheep, anything that lives near water. I'm like a postmodern vegetarian. I eat meat ironically.

—Bill Bailey

I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.

—A. Whitney Brown