Beauty will buy no beef. [ Proverb ]

It is good beef that costs nothing. [ Proverb ]

You to the cabbage and I to the beef. [ Proverb ]

You could make broth, but you have no beef. [ Proverb ]

He looks as big as if he had eaten bull-beef. [ Proverb ]

Man is a carnivorous production,
And must have meals, at least one meal a day;
He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction.
But, like the shark and tiger, must have prey.
Although his anatomical construction
Bears vegetables, in a grumbling way,
Your laboring people think beyond all question,
Beef, veal, and mutton better for digestion. [ Byron ]

I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit. [ Shakespeare ]

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne. [ Johnson ]