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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.
Author: Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Source: When the Sultan Goes to Ispahan
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Acorns were good till bread was found.
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: Colours of Good and Evil (6), quoted from Juvenal's "Satires" (XIV, 181)
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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.
Author: Joanna Baillie
Source: Basil (act I, sc. 1)
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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.
Author: Richard Harris Barham
Source: The Confession
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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.
Author: Joel Barlow
Source: The Hasty Pudding (canto I)
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Ratons and myse and soche smale dere
That was his mete that vii. yere.
Author: Sir Bevis of Hamptoun
Source: a manuscript in Caius College
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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.
Author: Bible
Source: Exodus (ch. XVI, v. 2-3)
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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.
Author: Bible
Source: Hebrews (ch. V, v. 12-14)
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And she said, 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.
Author: Bible
Source: I Kings (ch. XVII, v. 12)
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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.
Author: Bible
Source: I Kings (ch. XVII, v. 16)
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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.
Author: Bible
Source: Isaiah (ch. III, v. 1)
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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.
Author: Bible
Source: Isaiah (ch. XXII, v. 12-13)
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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.
Author: Bible
Source: Isaiah (ch. XXV, v. 6)
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When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the
fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.
Author: Bible
Source: John (ch. VI, v. 12)
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He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter
in a lordly dish.
Author: Bible
Source: Judges (ch. V, v. 25)
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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.
Author: Bible
Source: Matthew (ch. IV, v. 4)
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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?
Author: Bible
Source: Matthew (ch. VI, v. 25)
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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.)
Author: Bible
Source: Philippians (ch. III, v. 18-19)
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Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and
hatred therewith.
Author: Bible
Source: Proverbs (ch. XV, v. 17)
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A warmed-up dinner was never worth much.
[Fr., Un diner rechauffe ne valut jamais rien.]
Author: Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Source: Lutrin (I, 104)
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Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.
[Fr., Dis moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es.]
Author: Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Source: Physiologie du Gout
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First come, first served.
Author: Henry Brinklow
Source: Complaint of Roderyck Mors
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That famish'd people must be slowly nurst,
And fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Don Juan (canto II, st. 158)
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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.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Don Juan (canto II, st. 67)
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All human history attests
That happiness for man,--the hungry sinner!--
Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Don Juan (canto XIII, st. 99)
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Better halfe a loafe than no bread.
Author: William Camden
Source: Remaines--Proverbs (p. 293)
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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!
Author: Lewis Carroll (pseudonym of Rev. Charles L. Dodgson)
Source: Through the Looking Glass, The Walrus and the Carpenter
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All sorrows are good (or are less) with bread.
[Sp., Todos los duelos con pan son buenos (or son menos).]
Author: Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
Source: Don Quixote (ch. II, 13)
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The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach.
[Sp., Tripas llevan corazon, que no corazon tripas.]
Author: Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
Source: Don Quixote (ch. II, 47)
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The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
Author: Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
Source: Don Quixote (ch. XXIV)
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Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.
[Lat., Nemini fidas, nisi cum quo prius multos modios salis
absumpseris.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: De Amicitia (19, 67)
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
[Lat., Esse oportet ut vivas, non vivere ut edas.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: Rhetoricorum Ad C. Herennium (IV, 7)
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For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise.
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Source: Kubla Khan
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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!
Author: William Augustus Croffut
Source: Clam Soup
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A friendly swarry, consisting of a boiled leg of mutton with the
usual trimmings.
Author: Charles Dickens
Source: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (ch. XXXVII)
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The true Amphitryon.
Author: John Dryden
Source: Amphitryon (act IV, sc. 1)
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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!"
Author: Eugene Field
Source: The Bottle and the Bird
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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.
Author: Henry Fielding
Source: Grub Street Opera (act III, sc. 2), "The Roast Beef of Old England"
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Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Source: Poor Richard
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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.
Author: John Gay
Source: Trivia (bk. III, l. 199)
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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.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Source: The Traveller (l. 17)
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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."
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Source: Mosses from an Old Manse--The New Adam and Eve
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Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore is
called the staff of Life.
Author: Matthew (Mathew) Henry
Source: Commentaries (Psalm CIV)
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He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.
Author: Matthew (Mathew) Henry
Source: Commentaries (Psalm XXXI)
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I want every peasant to have a chicken in his pot on Sundays.
[Fr., Je veux que le dimanche chaque paysan ait sa poule au pot.]
Author: Matthew (Mathew) Henry
Source: Commentaries (Psalm XXXI)
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He pares his apple that will cleanly feed.
Author: George Herbert
Source: Church Porch (st. 2)
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A cherefull looke makes a dish a feast.
[A cheerful look makes a dish a feast.]
Author: George Herbert
Source: Jacula Prudentum
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Gluttony kills more then the sword.
[Gluttony kills more than the sword.]
Author: George Herbert
Source: Jacula Prudentum
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'Tis not the food, but the content,
That makes the table's merriment.
Author: Robert Herrick
Source: Content not Cates
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Out did the meate, out did the frolick wine.
Author: Robert Herrick
Source: Ode for Ben Jonson
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