Eating Quotes

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Eating is the act of consuming food. Eating is the process of ingesting food to provide for living beings nutritional needs, particularly for energy and growth. Check out our collection of Eating quotes and enjoy.


When the Sultan Shah-Zaman Goes to the city Ispahan, Even before he gets so far As the place where the clustered palm-trees are, At the last of the thirty palace-gates The pet of the harem, Rose-in-Bloom, Orders a feast in his favorite room-- Glittering square of colored ice, Sweetened with syrup, tinctured with spice, Creams, and cordials, and sugared dates, Syrian apples, Othmanee quinces, Limes and citrons and apricots, And wines that are known to Eastern princes. (Quote by - Thomas Bailey Aldrich)
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Acorns were good till bread was found. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
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Some men are born to feast, and not to fight; Whose sluggish minds, e'en in fair honor's field, Still on their dinner turn-- Let such pot-boiling varlets stay at home, And wield a flesh-hook rather than a sword. (Quote by - Joanna Baillie)
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'Tis not her coldness, father, That chills my labouring breast; It's that confounded cucumber I've ate and can't digest. (Quote by - Richard Harris Barham)
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I sing the sweets I know, the charms I feel, My morning incense. and my evening meal, The sweets of Hasty-Pudding. (Quote by - Joel Barlow)
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Ratons and myse and soche smale dere That was his mete that vii. yere. (Quote by - Sir Bevis of Hamptoun)
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And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness: And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger. (Quote by - Bible)
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For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God: and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil. (Quote by - Bible)
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As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die. (Quote by - Bible)
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And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by Elijah. (Quote by - Bible)
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For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water. (Quote by - Bible)
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And in that day did the Lord God of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die. (Quote by - Bible)
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And in this mountain shall the Lord of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined. (Quote by - Bible)
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When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost. (Quote by - Bible)
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He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish. (Quote by - Bible)
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But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. (Quote by - Bible)
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Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body more than raiment? (Quote by - Bible)
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(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.) (Quote by - Bible)
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Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith. (Quote by - Bible)
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A warmed-up dinner was never worth much. (Quote by - Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux)
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Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are. (Quote by - Anthelme Brillat-Savarin)
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First come, first served. (Quote by - Henry Brinklow)
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That famish'd people must be slowly nurst, And fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst. (Quote by - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron))
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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. (Quote by - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron))
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All human history attests That happiness for man,--the hungry sinner!-- Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. (Quote by - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron))
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Better halfe a loafe than no bread. (Quote by - William Camden)
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A loaf of bread, the Walrus said, Is what we chiefly need: Pepper and vinegar besides Are very good indeed-- Now if you're ready, Oysters, dear, We can begin to feed! (Quote by - Lewis Carroll)
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All sorrows are good (or are less) with bread. (Quote by - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
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The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach. (Quote by - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
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The proof of the pudding is in the eating. (Quote by - Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra))
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Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise. (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
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Oh, dainty and delicious! Food for the gods! Ambrosia for Apicius! Worthy to thrill the soul of sea-born Venus, Or titillate the palate of Silenus! (Quote by - William Augustus Croffut)
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A friendly swarry, consisting of a boiled leg of mutton with the usual trimmings. (Quote by - Charles Dickens)
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The true Amphitryon. (Quote by - John Dryden)
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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!" (Quote by - Eugene Field)
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When mighty roast beef was the Englishman's food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood-- Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England's roast beef. (Quote by - Henry Fielding)
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Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
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What will not luxury taste? Earth, sea, and air, Are daily ransack'd for the bill of fare. Blood stuffed in skins is British Christians' food, And France robs marshes of the croaking brood. (Quote by - John Gay)
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Blest be those feasts, with simple plenty crowned, Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
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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." (Quote by - Nathaniel Hawthorne)
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Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore is called the staff of Life. (Quote by - Matthew Henry)
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He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel. (Quote by - Mathew Henry)
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I want every peasant to have a chicken in his pot on Sundays. (Quote by - Matthew Henry)
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He pares his apple that will cleanly feed. (Quote by - George Herbert)
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A cherefull looke makes a dish a feast. A cheerful look makes a dish a feast. (Quote by - George Herbert)
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Gluttony kills more then the sword. Gluttony kills more than the sword. (Quote by - George Herbert)
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'Tis not the food, but the content, That makes the table's merriment. (Quote by - Robert Herrick)
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Out did the meate, out did the frolick wine. (Quote by - Robert Herrick)
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God never sendeth mouth but he sendeth meat. (Quote by - John Heywood)
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Born but to banquet, and to drain the bowl. (Quote by - Homer)
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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." (Quote by - Thomas Hood)
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Though your threshing floor grind a hundred thousand bushels of corn, not for that reason will your stomach hold more than mine. (Quote by - Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
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The consummate pleasure (in eating) is not in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce for sweating? (Quote by - Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
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A stomach that is seldom empty despises common food. (Quote by - Horace)
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Free livers on a small scale; who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea. (Quote by - Washington Irving)
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Think of the man who first tried German sausage. (Quote by - Jerome K. Jerome)
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For I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
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For a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
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Digestive cheese, and fruit there sure will be. (Quote by - Ben Jonson)
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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. (Quote by - Ben Jonson)
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The master of art or giver of wit, Their belly. (Quote by - Ben Jonson)
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In their palate alone is their reason of existence. (Quote by - Decimus Junius Juvenal)
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To eat at another's table is your ambition's height. (Quote by - Decimus Junius Juvenal)
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And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon. (Quote by - John Keats)
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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." (Quote by - Charles Lamb)
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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. (Quote by - Charles Lamb)
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If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner, And take to light claret instead of pale ale; Look down with an utter contempt upon butter, And never touch bread till its toasted--or stale. (Quote by - Henry S. Leigh)
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Your supper is like the Hidalgo's dinner; very little meat, and a great deal of tablecloth. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
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I am glad that my Adonis hath a sweete tooth in his head. (Quote by - John Lyly (Lylie or Lyllie))
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O hour, of all hours, the most blesse'd upon earth, The bless'd hour of our dinners! (Quote by - Lord Lytton)
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We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience, and live without heart; We may live without friends; we may live without books; But civilized man cannot live without cooks. He may live without books,--what is knowledge but grieving? He may live without hope,--what is hope but deceiving? He may live without love,--what is passion but pining? But where is the man that can live without dining? (Quote by - Lord Lytton)
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Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons. (Quote by - Thomas Babington Macaulay)
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I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle. (Quote by - Marcus Valerius Martial)
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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. (Quote by - Marcus Valerius Martial)
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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. (Quote by - Marcus Valerius Martial)
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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. (Quote by - Marcus Valerius Martial)
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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. (Quote by - Marcus Valerius Martial)
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As long as I have fat turtle-doves, a fig of your lettuce, my friend, and you may keep your shell-fish to yourself. I have no wish to waste my appetite. (Quote by - Marcus Valerius Martial)
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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? (Quote by - Marcus Valerius Martial)
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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. (Quote by - Marcus Valerius Martial)
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However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish. (Quote by - Marcus Valerius Martial)
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If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds. (Quote by - Marcus Valerius Martial)
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They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet Quaff immortality and joy. (Quote by - John Milton)
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The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine. (Quote by - Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere)
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Keep a good table and attend to the ladies. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
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What baron or squire Or knight of the shire Lives half so well as a holy friar. (Quote by - John O'Keefe)
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The poor man will praise it so hath he good cause, That all the year eats neither partridge not quail, But sets up his rest and makes up his feast, With a crust of brown bread and a pot of good ale. (Quote by - Old Song)
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Gluttony kills more than the sword, and is the kindler of all evils. (Quote by - Old Song)
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The way to a man's heart is through his stomach. (Quote by - Sara Payson Willis Parton)
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The belly (i.e. necessity) is the teacher of art and the liberal bestower of wit. (Quote by - Aulus Persius Flaccus)
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Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow. Lat., (Quote by - Titus Maccius Plautus)
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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. (Quote by - Caius Plinius Secundus)
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What, did you not know, then, that to-day Lucullus dines with Lucullus? (Quote by - Plutarch)
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And solid pudding against empty praise. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
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Pray take them, Sir,--Enough's a Feast; Eat some, and pocket up the rest. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
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One solid dish his week-day meal affords, An added pudding solemniz'd the Lord's. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
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Live like yourself, was soon my lady's word, And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
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An't it please your Honour, quoth the Peasant, "This same Desset is not so pleasant: Give me again my hollow Tree, A Crust of Bread, and Liberty." (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
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To abstain that we may enjoy is the epicurianism of reason. (Quote by - Author Unkonwn)
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A very man--not one of nature's clods-- With human failings, whether saint or sinner: Endowed perhaps with genius from the gods But apt to take his temper from his dinner. (Quote by - J.G. Saxe)
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A dinner lubricates business. (Quote by - William Scott, Lord Stowell)
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No, Antony, take the lot: But, first or last, your fine Egyptian cookery Shall have the fame. I have heard that Julius Caesar Grew faw with feasting there. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
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I almost die for food, and let me have it! (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
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Sit down and feed, and welcome to our table. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
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Marry, he must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
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Master, if you do, expect spoon-meat, or bespeak a long spoon. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
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Thou say'st his meat was sauced with thy upbradings; Unquiet meals make ill digestions; Thereof the raging fire of fever bred. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
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If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' th' shell. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
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He hath eaten me out of house and home; he hath put all of my substance into that fat belly of his. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
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He that keeps not crust nor crum Weary of all, shall want some. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
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Poor Tom, that eats the swimming frog, the toad, the todpole, the wall-newt and the water; that in the fury of his heart, when the foul fiend rages, eats cow-dung for sallets, swallows the old rat and the ditch-dog, drinks the green mantle of the standing pool; who is whipped from tithing to tithing, and stock-punished and imprisoned; who hath had three suits to his back, six shirts to his body, Horse to ride, and weapon to wear, But mice and rats, and such small deer, Have been Tom's food for seven long year. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
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Be it not in thy care. Go, I charge thee, invite them all; let in the tide Of knaves once more; my cook and I'll provide. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
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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; sit, sit. The gods require our thanks. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
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Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but backrout quite the wits. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
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You would be, sweet madam, if your miseries were in the same abundance as your good fortunes are; and yet for aught I see, they are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
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Come, we have a hot venison pasty to dinner. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
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I wished your venison better--it was ill killed. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
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I will make an end of my dinner--there's pippins and seese to come. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
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For, as a surfeit of the sweetest things The deepest loathing to the stomach brings, Or as the heresies that men do leave Are hated most of those they did deceive, So thou, my surfeit and my heresy, Of all be hated, but the most of me! (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
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I fear it is too choleric a meat. How say you to a fat tripe finely broiled? (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
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What say you to a piece of beef and mustard? (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
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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. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
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Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
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But that our feasts In every mess have folly, and the feeders Digest it with a custom, I should blush To see you so attired, swoon, I think, To show myself a glass. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
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Though we eat little flesh and drink no wine, Yet let's be merry; we'll have tea and toast; Custards for supper, and an endless host Of syllabubs and jellies and mince-pies, And other such ladylike luxuries. (Quote by - Percy Bysshe Shelley)
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Oh, herbaceous treat! 'Twould tempt the dying anchorite to eat; Back to the world he'd turn his fleeting soul, And plunge his fingers in the salad bowl; Serenely full the epicure would say, "Fate cannot harm me,--I have dined to-day." (Quote by - Sydney Smith)
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Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live. (Quote by - Socrates)
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Lord, Madame, I have fed like a farmer; I shall grow as fat as a porpoise. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)
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They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)
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Bread is the staff of life. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)
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This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men. (Quote by - Izaak Walton)
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