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Eating Quotes


These are some of the best 'Eating' quotations and sayings.


Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

Bread is the staff of life.

For a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

He hath eaten me out of house and home.

Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we shall die.

Man shall not live by bread alone

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

The chief pleasure in eating does not consist in costly seasoning, or exquisite flavor, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce by labor?

The difference between a rich man and a poor man, is this - the former eats when he pleases, and the latter when he can get it.

The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

They are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing. It is no mean happiness, therefore, to be seated in the mean: superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.

They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.