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“Better halfe a loafe than no bread.”
William Camden Quotes 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!”
Lewis Carroll (pseudonym of Rev. Charles L. Dodgson) Quotes 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).]”
Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) Quotes 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.]”
Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) Quotes Source: Don Quixote (ch. II, 47)
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“The proof of the pudding is in the eating.”
Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) Quotes 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.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes 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.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes Source: Rhetoricorum Ad C. Herennium (IV, 7)
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“For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes 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!”
William Augustus Croffut Quotes Source: Clam Soup
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“A friendly swarry, consisting of a boiled leg of mutton with the
usual trimmings.”
Charles Dickens Quotes Source: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (ch. XXXVII)
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“The true Amphitryon.”
John Dryden Quotes 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!"”
Eugene Field Quotes 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.”
Henry Fielding Quotes 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.”
Benjamin Franklin Quotes 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.”
John Gay Quotes 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.”
Oliver Goldsmith Quotes 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."”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes 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.”
Matthew (Mathew) Henry Quotes Source: Commentaries (Psalm CIV)
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“He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.”
Matthew (Mathew) Henry Quotes 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.]”
Matthew (Mathew) Henry Quotes Source: Commentaries (Psalm XXXI)
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“He pares his apple that will cleanly feed.”
George Herbert Quotes 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.]”
George Herbert Quotes Source: Jacula Prudentum
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“Gluttony kills more then the sword.
[Gluttony kills more than the sword.]”
George Herbert Quotes Source: Jacula Prudentum
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“'Tis not the food, but the content,
That makes the table's merriment.”
Robert Herrick Quotes Source: Content not Cates
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“Out did the meate, out did the frolick wine.”
Robert Herrick Quotes Source: Ode for Ben Jonson
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