EATING

Related Subjects: Appetite, Belly, Cooks and Cooking, Diet, Digestion, Dining, Feast, Food, Hunger

1. What most moved him was a certain meal on beans.—BROWNING, Asolando
   

2. 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.—BYRON, Don Juan
   

3. Men that can have communion in nothing else, can sympathetically eat together, can still rise into some glow of brotherhood over food and wine.—CARLYLE, The French Revolution
   

4. 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, Through the Looking-Glass
   

5. When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred,
   He quoth: "A large cold bottle, and a small hot bird!"—EUGENE FIELD, The Bottle and the Bird
   

6. One should eat to live, not live to eat.—FRANKLIN
   

7. Life, within doors, has few pleasanter prospects than a neatly arranged and well-provisioned breakfast-table.—HAWTHORNE, The House of the Seven Gables
   

8. Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it?—GEORGE HERBERT, The Size
   

9. By suppers more have been killed than Galen ever cured.—GEORGE HERBERT, Jacula Prudentum
   

10. Go to your banquet, then, but use delight,
    So as to rise still with an appetite.—ROBERT HERRICK
    

11. "An't it please your Honour," quoth the Peasant,
    "This same Dessert is not so pleasant:
    Give me again my hollow Tree,
    A crust of Bread, and Liberty."—HORACE
    

12. Eat a bit before you drink.—Proverb
    

13. Eat and drink measurely, and defy the mediciners.—Proverb
    

14. You dig your grave with your teeth.—Proverb
    

15. It is a great pleasure to eat, and have nothing to pay.—Proverb
    

16. Eat-well is drink-well's brother.—Proverb
    

17. The difference between a rich man and a poor man, is this—the
    former eats when he pleases, and the latter when he can get it.—SIR WALTER RALEIGH
    

18. We have to eat, don't we?
    You can't eat promises, can you?
    You can't eat the constitution, can you?—CARL SANDBURG, The People, Yes
    

19. Sit down and feed, and welcome to our table.—SHAKESPEARE, As You Like It
    

20. He hath eaten me out of house and home.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV
    

21. A very valiant trencher-man.—SHAKESPEARE, Much Ado About Nothing