Eating

"Bona summa putes, aliena vivere quadra."

"And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon."

"An handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse."

"And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail."

"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.""

"He hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure—and for such a tomb might be content to die."

"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."

"I am glad that my Adonis hath a sweete tooth in his head."

"Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons."

"Philo swears that he has never dined at home, and it is so; he does not dine at all, except when invited out."

"Mithriades, by frequently drinking poison, rendered it impossible for any poison to hurt him. You, Cinna, by always dining on next to nothing, have taken due precaution against ever perishing from hunger."

"Annius has some two hundred tables, and servants for every table. Dishes run hither and thither, and plates fly about. Such entertainments as these keep to yourselves, ye pompous; I am ill pleased with a supper that walks."

"You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe."

"As long as I have fat turtle-doves, a fig for your lettuce, my friend, and you may keep your shellfish to yourself. I have no wish to waste my appetite."

"See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?"

"Whether woodcock or partridge, what does it signify, if the taste is the same? But the partridge is dearer, and therefore thought preferable."

"However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish."

"I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baise; but now I luxuriously thirst for noble pickle."

"If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds."

"Man shall not live by bread alone."

"Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink."

"Tenez bonne table et soignez les femmes."

"What baron or squire Or knight of the shire Lives half so well as a holy friar."

"Gula plures occidit quam gladius, estque fomes omnium malorum."

"The way to a man's heart is through his stomach."

"Magister artis ingenique largitor Venter."

"Whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame."

"Festo die si quid prodegeris, Profesto egere liceat nisi peperceris."

"Their best and most wholesome feeding is upon one dish and no more and the same plaine and simple: for surely this hudling of many meats one upon another of divers tastes is pestiferous. But sundrie sauces are more dangerous than that."

"What, did you not know, then, that to-day Lucullus dines with Lucullus?"

"Pray take them, Sir,—Enough's a Feast; Eat some, and pocket up the rest."

"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."

"Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith."

"L'abstenir pour jouir, c'est l'épicurisme de la raison."

"Dis moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es."

"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."

"A dinner lubricates business."

"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."

"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.""

"Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live."

"Bread is the staff of life."

"This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men."