Back from that great-grandfather I have come
to puzzle a bending gravestone for his sake,
to question this diminishing and feed a minimum
of children their careful slice of suburban cake.
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
No matter how much you feed a wolf, an elephant still has bigger balls.
—Russian popular saying, trans. by Vladimir Ivanovich Shlyakov (1993)
The body can feed the body only.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)