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    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.

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A cherefull looke makes a dish a feast.
[A cheerful look makes a dish a feast.]

A cherefull looke makes a dish a feast.
[A cheerful look makes a dish a feast.]

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If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner,
And take to light claret instead of pale ale;
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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.

by Henry S. Leigh Found in: Eating Quotes,
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You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of
Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to read more

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

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Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.

Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Eating Quotes,
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Though we eat little flesh and drink no wine,
Yet let's be merry; we'll have tea and toast;
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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.

by Percy Bysshe Shelley Found in: Eating Quotes,
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The poor man will praise it so hath he good cause,
That all the year eats neither partridge not read more

The poor man will praise it so hath he good cause,
That all the year eats neither partridge not quail,
But sets up his rest and makes up his feast,
With a crust of brown bread and a pot of good ale.

by Old Song Found in: Eating Quotes,
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
[Lat., Esse oportet ut vivas, non vivere ut edas.]

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
[Lat., Esse oportet ut vivas, non vivere ut edas.]

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Digestive cheese, and fruit there sure will be.

Digestive cheese, and fruit there sure will be.

by Ben Jonson Found in: Eating Quotes,
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Acorns were good till bread was found.

Acorns were good till bread was found.

by Francis Bacon Found in: Eating Quotes,
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