You May Also Like / View all maxioms
 Lord, Madame, I have fed like a farmer; I shall grow as fat as a 
porpoise.  
 Lord, Madame, I have fed like a farmer; I shall grow as fat as a 
porpoise. 
And solid pudding against empty praise.
And solid pudding against empty praise.
 For, as a surfeit of the sweetest things
 The deepest loathing to the stomach brings,
  Or as read more 
 For, as a surfeit of the sweetest things
 The deepest loathing to the stomach brings,
  Or as the heresies that men do leave
   Are hated most of those they did deceive,
    So thou, my surfeit and my heresy,
     Of all be hated, but the most of me! 
Acorns were good till bread was found.
Acorns were good till bread was found.
 We may live without poetry, music and art;
 We may live without conscience, and live without heart;
  read more 
 We may live without poetry, music and art;
 We may live without conscience, and live without heart;
  We may live without friends; we may live without books;
   But civilized man cannot live without cooks.
    He may live without books,--what is knowledge but grieving?
     He may live without hope,--what is hope but deceiving?
      He may live without love,--what is passion but pining?
       But where is the man that can live without dining? 
 (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you 
even weeping, that they are read more 
 (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you 
even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose 
glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.) 
 I want every peasant to have a chicken in his pot on Sundays.
 [Fr., Je veux que le dimanche read more 
 I want every peasant to have a chicken in his pot on Sundays.
 [Fr., Je veux que le dimanche chaque paysan ait sa poule au pot.] 
 The belly (i.e. necessity) is the teacher of art and the liberal 
bestower of wit.
 [Lat., Magister artis read more 
 The belly (i.e. necessity) is the teacher of art and the liberal 
bestower of wit.
 [Lat., Magister artis ingenique largitor Venter.] 
 What, did you not know, then, that to-day Lucullus dines with 
Lucullus?  
 What, did you not know, then, that to-day Lucullus dines with 
Lucullus?