"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."
Alexander Pope
Quotes , Source: Second Book of Horace (last lines)
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To abstain that we may enjoy is the epicurianism of reason.
[Fr., L'abstenir pur jouir, c'est l'epicurisme de la raison.]
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To abstain that we may enjoy is the epicurianism of reason.
[Fr., L'abstenir pur jouir, c'est l'epicurisme de la raison.]
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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.
J.G. Saxe
Quotes , Source: About Husbands
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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.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: Antony and Cleopatra (Pompey at II, vi)
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Marry, he must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The Comedy of Errors (Dromio of Syracuse at IV, iii)
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Master, if you do, expect spoon-meat, or bespeak a long spoon.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The Comedy of Errors (Dromio of Syracuse at IV, iii)
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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.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The Comedy of Errors (Lady Abbess at V, i)
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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.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The History of Troilus and Cressida (Cressida at I, ii)
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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.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part II (Hostess at II, i)
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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.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: King Lear (Edgar at III, iv)
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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.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The Life of Timon of Athens (Timon at III, iv)
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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.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The Life of Timon of Athens (Timon at III, vi)
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Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits
Make rich the ribs, but backrout quite the wits.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: Love's Labor's Lost (Longaville at I, i)
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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.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The Merchant of Venice (Nerissa at I, ii)
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Come, we have a hot venison pasty to dinner.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The Merry Wives of Windsor (Mistress Page at I, i)
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I wished your venison better--it was ill killed.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The Merry Wives of Windsor (Shallow at I, i)
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I will make an end of my dinner--there's pippins and seese to
come.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The Merry Wives of Windsor (Evans at I, ii)
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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!
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Lysander at II, ii)
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I fear it is too choleric a meat.
How say you to a fat tripe finely broiled?
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The Taming of the Shrew (Grumio at IV, iii)
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