Eating

"Antony, however, according to his custom, returned alone to his own cell, increased his discipline, and sighed daily as he thought of the mansions in Heaven, having his desire fixed on them, and pondering over the shortness of man's life. And he used to eat and sleep, and go about all other bodily necessities with shame when he thought of the spiritual faculties of the soul. So often, when about to eat with any other hermits, recollecting the spiritual food, he begged to be excused, and departed far off from them, deeming it a matter for shame if he should be seen eating by others."

"This much thou hast taught me: that I should learn to take food as medicine. But during that time when I pass from the pinch of emptiness to the contentment of fullness, it is in that very moment that the snare of appetite lies baited for me."

"What is sufficient for health is not enough for pleasure. And it is often a matter of doubt whether it is the needful care of the body that still calls for food or whether it is the sensual snare of desire still wanting to be served. In this uncertainty my unhappy soul rejoices, and uses it to prepare an excuse as a defense. It is glad that it is not clear as to what is sufficient for the moderation of health, so that under the pretense of health it may conceal its projects for pleasure."

"Some men are born to feast, and not to fight; Whose sluggish minds, e'en in fair honor's field, Still on their dinner turn— Let such pot-boiling varlets stay at home, And wield a flesh-hook rather than a sword."

"I sing the sweets I know, the charms I feel, My morning incense, and my evening meal, The sweets of Hasty-Pudding."

"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."

"That famish'd people must be slowly nurst, And fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst."

"All human history attests That happiness for man,—the hungry sinner!— Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner."

"Todos los duelos con pan son buenos (or son menos)."

"Tripas llevan corazon, que no corazon tripas."

"The proof of the pudding is in the eating."

"A friendly swarry, consisting of a boiled leg of mutton with the usual trimmings."

"The true Amphitryon."

"A cheerful look makes a dish a feast."

"Gluttony kills more than the sword."

"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."

"Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing."

"Some say eat, or be eaten."

"A Padmini is used to eating very little, Chitarini consumes twice that quantity, Hastini three times and Sankhini eats an enormous amount of food."

"Your supper is like the Hidalgo's dinner; very little meat, and a great deal of tablecloth."

"O hour, of all hours, the most bless'd upon earth, The blessèd hour of our dinners!"

"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?"

"They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet Quaff immortality and joy."

"Le véritable Amphitryon Est l'Amphitryon où l'on dine."

"As the child's dominance over food increases, the food controls his activities more and more from within. Once the foods taken within the digestive tract, it stimulates a tremendous number of nerve channels within the body and brain. These nerve excitations result in shifting the blood supply from the outside of the body to the stomach and the inside organs. Of course, all this is a provision of nature for the adequate disposition of the food."

"And solid pudding against empty praise."

"One solid dish his week-day meal affords, An added pudding solemniz'd the Lord's."

""Live like yourself," was soon my lady's word, And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board."

"The Gods have not ordained hunger to be our death: even to the well-fed man comes death in varied shape, The riches of the liberal never waste away, while he who will not give finds none to comfort him, The man with food in store who, when the needy comes in miserable case begging for bread to eat, Hardens his heart against him, when of old finds not one to comfort him. Bounteous is he who gives unto the beggar who comes to him in want of food, and the feeble, Success attends him in the shout of battle. He makes a friend of him in future troubles, No friend is he who to his friend and comrade who comes imploring food, will offer nothing. Let the rich satisfy the poor implorer, and bend his eye upon a longer pathway, Riches come now to one, now to another, and like the wheels of cars are ever rolling, The foolish man wins food with fruitless labour: that food – I speak the truth – shall be his ruin, He feeds no trusty friend, no man to love him. All guilt is he who eats with no partaker."

"He who nourishes neither God nor man, he who eats alone, gathers sin."

"But, first Or last, your fine Egyptian cookery Shall have the fame. I have heard that Julius Cæsar Grew fat with feasting there."

"Sit down and feed, and welcome to our table."

"If you do, expect spoon-meat; or bespeak a long spoon."

"Unquiet meals make ill digestions."

"He hath eaten me out of house and home."

"He that keeps nor crust nor crum, Weary of all, shall want some."

"But mice, and rats, and such small deer, Have been Tom's food for seven long year."

"Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but bankrupt quite the wits."

"They are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing."

"A surfeit of the sweetest things The deepest loathing to the stomach brings."

"I wished your venison better; it was ill kill'd."

"Come, we have a hot venison pasty to dinner."

"I will make an end of my dinner; there's pippins and cheese to come."

"Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour."

"I fear it is too choleric a meat. How say you to a fat tripe finely broil'd?"

"What say you to a piece of beef and mustard?"

"My cake is dough: but I'll in among the rest, Out of hope of all, but my share of the feast."

"I charge thee, invite them all; let in the tide Of knaves once more: my cook and I'll provide."

"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."

"The poor man will praise it so hath he good cause, That all the year eats neither partridge nor quail, But sets up his rest and makes up his feast, With a crust of brown bread and a pot of good ale."