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He pares his apple that will cleanly feed. - George Herbert, Church Porch (st. 2) A cherefull looke makes a dish a feast. [A cheerful look makes a dish a feast.] - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum Gluttony kills more then the sword. [Gluttony kills more than the sword.] - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum Go to your banquet then, but use delight So as to rise still with an appetite. - Robert Herrick 'Tis not the food, but the content, That makes the table's merriment. - Robert Herrick, Content not Cates Out did the meate, out did the frolick wine. - Robert Herrick, Ode for Ben Jonson God never sendeth mouth but he sendeth meat. - John Heywood, Proverbs (pt. I, ch. IV) Born but to banquet, and to drain the bowl. - Homer ("Smyrns of Chios"), The Odyssey (bk. X, l. 622), (Pope's translation) "Good, well-dress'd turtle beats them hollow,-- It almost makes me wish, I vow, To have two stomachs, like a cow!" And lo! as with the cud, an inward thrill Upheaved his waistcoat and disturb'd his frill, His mouth was oozing, and he work'd his jaw-- "I almost that that I could eat one raw." - Thomas Hood, The Turtles Though your threshing floor grind a hundred thousand bushels of corn, not for that reason will your stomach hold more than mine. [Lat., Millia frumenti tua triverit area centum. Non tuus hinc capiet venter plus ac meus.] - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Satires (I, 1, 45) The consummate pleasure (in eating) is not in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce for sweating? - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Satires (II, 2) A stomach that is seldom empty despises common food. [Lat., Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit.] - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Satires (II, 2, 38) The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive. - William Ralph Inge Free livers on a small scale; who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea. - Washington Irving, The Stout Gentleman Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive. - Wallace Irwin We never repent of having eaten too little. - Thomas Jefferson Think of the man who first tried German sausage. - Jerome Klapka Jerome, Three Men in a Boat (ch. XIV) For I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature"), Boswell's Life of Johnson (vol. III, ch. 9) For a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature"), Piozzi's Anecdotes of Johnson Digestive cheese, and fruit there sure will be. - Ben Jonson, Epigram CI Yet shall you have to rectify your palate, An olive, capers, or some better salad Ushering the mutton; with a short-legged hen, If we can get her, full of eggs, and then, Limons, and wine for sauce: to these a coney Is not to be despaired of for our money; And though fowl now be scarce, yet there are clerks, The sky not falling, think we may have larks. - Ben Jonson, Epigram CI The master of art or giver of wit, Their belly. - Ben Jonson, Poetaster In their palate alone is their reason of existence. [Lat., In solo vivendi causa palata est.] - Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal), Satires (II, 11) To eat at another's table is your ambition's height. [Lat., Bona summa putes, aliena vivere quadra.] - Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal), Satires (V, 2) And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon. - John Keats (1), The Eve of St. Agnes (st. 30) Displaying page 3 of 7 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 [3] 4 5 6 7
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