Eating - Maxioms.comQuotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxiomshttp://www.maxioms.comen-usCopyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.<![CDATA[Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13276<![CDATA[But that our feasts In every mess have folly, and the feeders Digest it with a custom, I should ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13277<![CDATA[Though we eat little flesh and drink no wine, Yet let's be merry; we'll have tea and toast; Custards ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13278<![CDATA[Oh, herbaceous treat! 'Twould tempt the dying anchorite to eat; Back to the world he'd turn his fleeting soul, ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13279<![CDATA[Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13280<![CDATA[Lord, Madame, I have fed like a farmer; I shall grow as fat as a porpoise. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13281<![CDATA[They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13282<![CDATA[Bread is the staff of life. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13283<![CDATA[This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13284<![CDATA[To abstain that we may enjoy is the epicurianism of reason. [Fr., L'abstenir pur jouir, c'est l'epicurisme de la raison.] ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13253<![CDATA[A very man--not one of nature's clods-- With human failings, whether saint or sinner: Endowed perhaps with genius from ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13254<![CDATA[A dinner lubricates business. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13255<![CDATA[No, Antony, take the lot: But, first or last, your fine Egyptian cookery Shall have the fame. I have ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13256<![CDATA[I almost die for food, and let me have it! ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13257<![CDATA[Sit down and feed, and welcome to our table. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13258<![CDATA[Master, if you do, expect spoon-meat, or bespeak a long spoon. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13259<![CDATA[Thou say'st his meat was sauced with thy upbradings; Unquiet meals make ill digestions; Thereof the raging fire of ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13260<![CDATA[If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' th' ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13261<![CDATA[He hath eaten me out of house and home; he hath put all of my substance into that fat belly ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13262<![CDATA[He that keeps not crust nor crum Weary of all, shall want some. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13263<![CDATA[Poor Tom, that eats the swimming frog, the toad, the todpole, the wall-newt and the water; that in the fury ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13264<![CDATA[Be it not in thy care. Go, I charge thee, invite them all; let in the tide Of knaves ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13265<![CDATA[Each man to his stool, with that spur as he would to the lip of his mistress. Your diet shall ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13266<![CDATA[Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but backrout quite the wits. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13267<![CDATA[You would be, sweet madam, if your miseries were in the same abundance as your good fortunes are; and yet ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13268<![CDATA[Come, we have a hot venison pasty to dinner. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13269<![CDATA[I wished your venison better--it was ill killed. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13270<![CDATA[I will make an end of my dinner--there's pippins and seese to come. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13271<![CDATA[For, as a surfeit of the sweetest things The deepest loathing to the stomach brings, Or as the heresies ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13272<![CDATA[I fear it is too choleric a meat. How say you to a fat tripe finely broiled? ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13273<![CDATA[What say you to a piece of beef and mustard? ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13274<![CDATA[My cake is dough, but I'll in among the rest, Out of hope of all but my share of the ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13275<![CDATA[The way to a man's heart is through his stomach. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13243<![CDATA[The belly (i.e. necessity) is the teacher of art and the liberal bestower of wit. [Lat., Magister artis ingenique largitor ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13244<![CDATA[Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow. [Lat., Festo die si quid prodegeris, Profesto egere liceat nisi peperceris.] ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13245<![CDATA[Their best and most wholesome feeding is upon one dish and no more and the same plaine and simple: for ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13246<![CDATA[What, did you not know, then, that to-day Lucullus dines with Lucullus? ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13247<![CDATA[And solid pudding against empty praise. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13248<![CDATA["Pray take them, Sir,--Enough's a Feast; Eat some, and pocket up the rest." ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13249<![CDATA[One solid dish his week-day meal affords, An added pudding solemniz'd the Lord's. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13250<![CDATA["Live like yourself," was soon my lady's word, And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13251<![CDATA["An't it please your Honour," quoth the Peasant, "This same Desset is not so pleasant: Give me again my ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13252<![CDATA[You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13228<![CDATA[Philo swears that he has never dined at home, and it is so; he does not dine at all, except ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13229<![CDATA[Mithriades, by frequently drinking poison, rendered it impossible for any poison to hurt him. You, Cinna, by always dining on ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13230<![CDATA[Annius has some two hundred tables, and servants for every table. Dishes run hither and thither, and plates fly about. ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13231<![CDATA[As long as I have fat turtle-doves, a fig of your lettuce, my friend, and you may keep your shell-fish ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13232<![CDATA[See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13233<![CDATA[Whether woodcock or partridge, what does it signify, if the taste is the same? But the partridge is dearer, and ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13234<![CDATA[However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13235