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Digestive cheese, and fruit there sure will be.
Digestive cheese, and fruit there sure will be.
 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.] 
 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. 
 You would be, sweet madam, if your miseries were in the same 
abundance as your good fortunes are; and read more 
 You would be, sweet madam, if your miseries were in the same 
abundance as your good fortunes are; and yet for aught I see, 
they are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve 
with nothing. 
 Free livers on a small scale; who are prodigal within the compass 
of a guinea.  
 Free livers on a small scale; who are prodigal within the compass 
of a guinea. 
 For he on honey-dew hath fed,
 And drunk the milk of Paradise.  
 For he on honey-dew hath fed,
 And drunk the milk of Paradise. 
 Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.
 [Fr., Dis moi ce que tu read more 
 Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.
 [Fr., Dis moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es.] 
A dinner lubricates business.
A dinner lubricates business.