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“Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (Gaunt at I, iii)
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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.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: The Winter's Tale (Perdita at IV, iv)
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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.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes Source: Letter to Maria Gisborne
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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."”
Sydney Smith Quotes Source: A Receipt for a Salad
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“Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat
and drink that they may live.”
Socrates Quotes Source: Plutarch's Morals--How a Young Man Ought to Hear Poems
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“Lord, Madame, I have fed like a farmer; I shall grow as fat as a
porpoise.”
Jonathan Swift Quotes Source: Polite Conversation (dialogue II)
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“They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.”
Jonathan Swift Quotes Source: Polite Conversation (dialogue II)
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“Bread is the staff of life.”
Jonathan Swift Quotes Source: Tale of a Tub
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“This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest
men.”
Izaak Walton Quotes Source: The Compleat Angler (pt. I, ch. VIII)
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