"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."

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

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

"Magister artis ingenique largitor Venter."

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

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

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

"Tenez bonne table et soignez les femmes."

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

"Man shall not live by bread alone."

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

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

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

"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.""

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

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

"And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon."

"Bona summa putes, aliena vivere quadra."

"In solo vivendi causa palato est."

"She brought forth butter in a lordly dish."

"The master of art or giver of wit, Their belly."

"Yet shall you have to rectify your palate, An olive, capers, or some better salad Ushering the mutton; with a short-legged hen, If we can get her, full of eggs, and then, Limons, and wine for sauce: to these a coney Is not to be despaired of for our money; And though fowl now be scarce, yet there are clerks, The sky not falling, think we may have larks."

"Digestive cheese, and fruit there sure will be."

"For a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner."

"For I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else."

"Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost."

"Think of the man who first tried German sausage."

"A feast of fat things."

"Let us eat and drink; for to-morrow we shall die."

"The stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water."

"Free livers on a small scale; who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea."

"The consummate pleasure (in eating) is not in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce by sweating?"

"Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit."

"Millia frumenti tua triverit area centum, Non tuus hinc capiet venter plus ac meus."

"Good well-dress'd turtle beats them hollow,— It almost makes me wish, I vow, To have two stomachs, like a cow!" And lo! as with the cud, an inward thrill Upheaved his waistcoat and disturb'd his frill, His mouth was oozing, and he work'd his jaw— "I almost think that I could eat one raw."

"Born but to banquet, and to drain the bowl."

"God never sendeth mouth but he sendeth meat."

"Out did the meate, out did the frolick wine."

"'Tis not the food, but the content, That makes the table's merriment."