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Better halfe a loafe than no bread. Camden—Remaines. Proverbs. P. 293. </poem>
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A loaf of bread, the Walrus said,
Is what we chiefly need:
Pepper and vinegar besides
Are very good indeed—
Now if you're ready, Oysters, dear,
We can begin to feed!
Lewis Carroll—The Walrus and the Carpenter. From Alice Through The LookingGlasa.
Todos los duelos con pan son buenos (or son
menos).
All sorrows are good (or are less) with bread.
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| work = Don Quixote.
| place = Ch. II. 13.
Tripas llevan corazon, que no corazon tripas.
The stomach carries the heart, and not the
heart the stomach.
| author = Cervantes
| work = Don Quixote.
| place = Ch. II. 47.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
| author = Cervantes
| work = Don Quixote.
| place = Ch. XXIV.
Nemini fidas, nisi cum quo prius multos
modios salis absumpseris.
Trust no one unless you have eaten much
salt with him.
Cicebo—De Amic. 19, 67. (Quoted.}})
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| text = <poem>Esse oportet ut vivas, non vivere ut edas.
Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
Cicero—Rhetoricorum Ad C. Herennium. IV.
7.
For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise.
Coleridge—Kubla Khan.
Oh, dainty and delicious!
Food for the gods! Ambrosia for Apicius! Worthy to thrill the soul of sea-born Venus, Or titillate the palate of Silenus! W. A. Croffut—Clam Soup. </poem>
A friendly swarry, consisting of a boiled leg of mutton with the usual trimmings.
The true Amphitryon.
Dryden—Amphitryon. Act IV. Sc. 1.
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When we sat by the fleshpots.
Exodus. XVI. 3.
When I demanded of my friend what viands he
preferred,
He quoth: "A large cold bottle, and a small hot
bird!"
Eugene Field—The Bottle and the Bird.
When mighty roast beef was the Englishman's
food
It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood—
Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were
good.
Oh! the roast beef of England,
And Old England's roast beef.
Henry Fielding—The Roast Beef of Old
England. In Grub Street Opera. Act III.
Sc. 2. Claimed for R. Leveridge.
Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.
Benj. Franklin—Poor Richard. (1733)
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| text = <poem>What will not luxury taste? Earth, sea, and air,
Are daily ransack'd for the bill of fare.
Blood stuffed in skins is British Christians' food,
And France robs marshes of the croaking brood.
Gay—Trivia. Bk. III. L. 199.
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.
| author = Goldsmith
| work = Traveller. L. 17.
"Here, dearest Eve," he exclaims, "here is
food." "Well," answered she, with the germ of
a housewife stirring within her, "we have been
so busy to-day that a picked-up dinner must
serve."
Hawthorne—Mosses from an Old Manse.
The New Adam and Eve.
Je veux que le dimanche chaque paysan ait
sa poule au pot.
I want every peasant to have a chicken in
his pot on Sundays.
Henry IV of France.
Such as have need of milk, and not of strong
meat.
Hebrews. V. 12.
Strong meat belongeth to them that are of
full age.
Hebrews. V. 14.
He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.
Matthew Henry—Commentaries.
Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart,
and therefore is called the staff of Life.
Matthew Henry—Commentaries. Psalm CIV.
15.
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| text = <poem>He pares his apple that will cleanly feed.
| author = Herbert
| work = Church Porch. St. 2.
A cheerful look makes a dish a feast.
| author = Herbert
| work = Jacula Prudentum.
Gluttony kills more than the sword
| author = Herbert
| work = Jacula Prudentum.
'Tis not the food, but the content,
That makes the table's merriment.
Herhick—Content not Cotes.
Out did the meate, out did the frolick wine.
| author = Herrick
| work = Ode for Ben Jonson.
God never sendeth mouth but he sendeth meat.
Hetwood—Proverbs. Pt. I. Ch. IV.
