| Author |
Quotes |
| Oliver Goldsmith | 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. |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | 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. |
| Persius Flaccus | The belly is the teacher of art and the liberal bestower of wit. |
| Plutarch | What, did you not know, then, that to-day Lucullus dines with Lucullus? |
| Richard Harris Barham | 'Tis not her coldness, father, That chills my labouring breast; It's that confounded cucumber I've ate and can't digest. |
| Robert Herrick | 'Tis not the food, but the content, That makes the table's merriment. |
| Robert Herrick | Out did the meate, out did the frolick wine. |
| Samuel Johnson | For I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else. |
| Samuel Johnson | For a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner. |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise. |
| Sir Bevis of Hamptoun | Ratons and myse and soche smale dere That was his mete that vii. yere. |
| Socrates | Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live. |
| Sydney Smith | 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." |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay | Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons. |
| Washington Irving | Free livers on a small scale; who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea. |
| William Augustus Croffut | 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! |
| William Camden | Better halfe a loafe than no bread. |
| William Scott | A dinner lubricates business. |
| Francis Bacon | Acorns were good till bread was found. |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Your supper is like the Hidalgo's dinner, very little meat, and a great deal of tablecloth. |
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