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Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.
Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.
Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.
Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.
A stomach that is seldom empty despises common food.
[Lat., Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit.]
A stomach that is seldom empty despises common food.
[Lat., Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit.]
If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you
would eat chickens i' read more
If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you
would eat chickens i' th' shell.
Come, we have a hot venison pasty to dinner.
Come, we have a hot venison pasty to dinner.
A warmed-up dinner was never worth much.
[Fr., Un diner rechauffe ne valut jamais rien.]
A warmed-up dinner was never worth much.
[Fr., Un diner rechauffe ne valut jamais rien.]
And in this mountain shall the Lord of hosts make unto all people
a feast of fat things, a read more
And in this mountain shall the Lord of hosts make unto all people
a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat
things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.
Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.
Born but to banquet, and to drain the bowl.
Born but to banquet, and to drain the bowl.
