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Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore is called the staff of Life.

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He pares his apple that will cleanly feed.

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'Tis not the food, but the content,That makes the table's merriment.

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Out did the meate, out did the frolick wine.

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God never sendeth mouth but he sendeth meat.

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Born but to banquet, and to drain the bowl.

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The consummate pleasure (in eating) is not in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce by sweating?

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Free livers on a small scale; who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea.

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The stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water.

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Let us eat and drink; for to-morrow we shall die.

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A feast of fat things.

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Think of the man who first tried German sausage.

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Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.

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For I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.

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For a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

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Digestive cheese, and fruit there sure will be.

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Yet shall you have to rectify your palate,The sky not falling, think we may have larks.

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The master of art or giver of wit, Their belly.

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She brought forth butter in a lordly dish.

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And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon.

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An handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse.

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And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail.

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A woman asked a coachman, "Are you full inside?" Upon which Lamb put his head through the window and said: "I am quite full inside; that last piece of pudding at Mr. Gillman's did the business for me."

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He hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure—and for such a tomb might be content to die.

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If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner, And never touch bread till its toasted—or stale.

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I am glad that my Adonis hath a sweete tooth in his head.

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Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.

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Philo swears that he has never dined at home, and it is so; he does not dine at all, except when invited out.

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Mithriades, by frequently drinking poison, rendered it impossible for any poison to hurt him. You, Cinna, by always dining on next to nothing, have taken due precaution against ever perishing from hunger.

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Annius has some two hundred tables, and servants for every table. Dishes run hither and thither, and plates fly about. Such entertainments as these keep to yourselves, ye pompous; I am ill pleased with a supper that walks.

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You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.

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As long as I have fat turtle-doves, a fig for your lettuce, my friend, and you may keep your shellfish to yourself. I have no wish to waste my appetite.

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See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?

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Whether woodcock or partridge, what does it signify, if the taste is the same? But the partridge is dearer, and therefore thought preferable.

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However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.

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I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baise; but now I luxuriously thirst for noble pickle.

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If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.

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Man shall not live by bread alone.

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Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink.

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What baron or squireLives half so well as a holy friar.

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The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.

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Whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame.

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Their best and most wholesome feeding is upon one dish and no more and the same plaine and simple: for surely this hudling of many meats one upon another of divers tastes is pestiferous. But sundrie sauces are more dangerous than that.

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What, did you not know, then, that to-day Lucullus dines with Lucullus?

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Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

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A very man—not one of nature's clods— But apt to take his temper from his dinner.

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A dinner lubricates business.

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Though we eat little flesh and drink no wine,And other such ladylike luxuries.

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Oh, herbaceous treat!"Fate cannot harm me,—I have dined to-day."

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Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

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Bread is the staff of life.

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This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men.

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The poor man will praise it so hath he good cause, With a crust of brown bread and a pot of good ale.

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This much thou hast taught me: that I should learn to take food as medicine. But during that time when I pass from the pinch of emptiness to the contentment of fullness, it is in that very moment that the snare of appetite lies baited for me.

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What is sufficient for health is not enough for pleasure. And it is often a matter of doubt whether it is the needful care of the body that still calls for food or whether it is the sensual snare of desire still wanting to be served. In this uncertainty my unhappy soul rejoices, and uses it to prepare an excuse as a defense. It is glad that it is not clear as to what is sufficient for the moderation of health, so that under the pretense of health it may conceal its projects for pleasure.

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Some men are born to feast, and not to fight;And wield a flesh-hook rather than a sword.

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I sing the sweets I know, the charms I feel,The sweets of Hasty-Pudding.

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Man is a carnivorous production,Beef, veal, and mutton better for digestion.

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That famish'd people must be slowly nurst,And fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst.

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All human history attestsSince Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner.

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The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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A friendly swarry, consisting of a boiled leg of mutton with the usual trimmings.

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The true Amphitryon.

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A cheerful look makes a dish a feast.

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Gluttony kills more than the sword.

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Blest be those feasts, with simple plenty crowned,Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale.

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Some say eat, or be eaten.

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A Padmini is used to eating very little, Chitarini consumes twice that quantity, Hastini three times and Sankhini eats an enormous amount of food.

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Your supper is like the Hidalgo's dinner; very little meat, and a great deal of tablecloth.

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O hour, of all hours, the most bless'd upon earth,The blessèd hour of our dinners!

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We may live without poetry, music and art;But where is the man that can live without dining?

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They eat, they drink, and in communion sweetQuaff immortality and joy.

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And solid pudding against empty praise.

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One solid dish his week-day meal affords,An added pudding solemniz'd the Lord's.

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He who nourishes neither God nor man, he who eats alone, gathers sin.

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But, firstGrew fat with feasting there.

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Sit down and feed, and welcome to our table.

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If you do, expect spoon-meat; or bespeak a long spoon.

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He hath eaten me out of house and home.

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He that keeps nor crust nor crum,Weary of all, shall want some.

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But mice, and rats, and such small deer,Have been Tom's food for seven long year.

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Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bitsMake rich the ribs, but bankrupt quite the wits.

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They are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.

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A surfeit of the sweetest thingsThe deepest loathing to the stomach brings.

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I wished your venison better; it was ill kill'd.

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Come, we have a hot venison pasty to dinner.

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I will make an end of my dinner; there's pippins and cheese to come.

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Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.

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I fear it is too choleric a meat.How say you to a fat tripe finely broil'd?

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What say you to a piece of beef and mustard?

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My cake is dough: but I'll in among the rest,Out of hope of all, but my share of the feast.

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I charge thee, invite them all; let in the tideOf knaves once more: my cook and I'll provide.

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Each man to his stool, with that spur as he would to the lip of his mistress; your diet shall be in all places alike. Make not a city feast of it, to let the meat cool ere we can agree upon the first place.

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You would eat chickens i' the shell.

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Our feastsTo see you so attir'd.

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Lord, Madame, I have fed like a farmer; I shall grow as fat as a porpoise.

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They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.

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Acorns were good till bread was found.

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'Tis not her coldness, father, I've ate and can't digest.

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Ratons and myse and soche smale dereThat was his mete that vii. yere.

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First come, first served.

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Better halfe a loafe than no bread.

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A loaf of bread, the Walrus said, We can begin to feed!

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For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.

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Oh, dainty and delicious!Or titillate the palate of Silenus!

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When we sat by the fleshpots.

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When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred,He quoth: "A large cold bottle, and a small hot bird!"

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When mighty roast beef was the Englishman's foodAnd Old England's roast beef.

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Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.

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What will not luxury taste? Earth, sea, and air,And France robs marshes of the croaking brood.

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Here, dearest Eve," he exclaims, "here is food." "Well," answered she, with the germ of a housewife stirring within her, "we have been so busy to-day that a picked-up dinner must serve.

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Such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.

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Strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age.

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He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.

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