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“God never sendeth mouth but he sendeth meat.”
John Heywood Quotes Source: Proverbs (pt. I, ch. IV)
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“Born but to banquet, and to drain the bowl.”
Homer ("Smyrns of Chios") Quotes Source: The Odyssey (bk. X, l. 622), (Pope's translation)
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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."”
Thomas Hood Quotes Source: The Turtles
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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.
[Lat., Millia frumenti tua triverit area centum.
Non tuus hinc capiet venter plus ac meus.]”
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes Source: Satires (I, 1, 45)
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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?”
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes Source: Satires (II, 2)
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“A stomach that is seldom empty despises common food.
[Lat., Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit.]”
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes Source: Satires (II, 2, 38)
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“Free livers on a small scale; who are prodigal within the compass
of a guinea.”
Washington Irving Quotes Source: The Stout Gentleman
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“Think of the man who first tried German sausage.”
Jerome K. Jerome Quotes Source: Three Men in a Boat (ch. XIV)
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“For I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will
hardly mind anything else.”
Samuel Johnson Quotes Source: Boswell's Life of Johnson (vol. III, ch. 9)
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“For a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he
does of his dinner.”
Samuel Johnson Quotes Source: Piozzi's Anecdotes of Johnson
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“Digestive cheese, and fruit there sure will be.”
Ben Jonson Quotes Source: Epigram CI
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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.”
Ben Jonson Quotes Source: Epigram CI
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“The master of art or giver of wit,
Their belly.”
Ben Jonson Quotes Source: Poetaster
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“In their palate alone is their reason of existence.
[Lat., In solo vivendi causa palata est.]”
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal) Quotes Source: Satires (II, 11)
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“To eat at another's table is your ambition's height.
[Lat., Bona summa putes, aliena vivere quadra.]”
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal) Quotes Source: Satires (V, 2)
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“And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon.”
John Keats Quotes Source: The Eve of St. Agnes (st. 30)
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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."”
Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia) Quotes Source: Autobiographical Recollections, by Charles R. Leslie
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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.”
Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia) Quotes Source: Dissertation upon Roast Pig
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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.”
Henry S. Leigh Quotes Source: A Day for Wishing
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“Your supper is like the Hidalgo's dinner; very little meat, and a
great deal of tablecloth.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes Source: Spanish Student (act I, sc. 4)
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“I am glad that my Adonis hath a sweete tooth in his head.”
John Lyly (Lylie or Lyllie) Quotes Source: Euphues and his England (p. 308)
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“O hour, of all hours, the most blesse'd upon earth,
The bless'd hour of our dinners!”
Lord Lytton (Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton) ("Owen Meredith") Quotes Source: Lucile (pt. I, canto II, st. 23)
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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?”
Lord Lytton (Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton) ("Owen Meredith") Quotes Source: Lucile (pt. I, canto II, st. 24)
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“Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.”
Thomas Babington Macaulay Quotes Source: Political Georgics
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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.”
Marcus Valerius Martial Quotes Source: Epigrams (bk. 13, ep. 82)
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