Food & Drink Sayings
28 sayings found from the Ancient era from 28 authors
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Do not hold grain waiting for higher prices when people are hungry.
My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.
It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.
If any one ensnare another, putting a ban upon him, but he can not prove it, then he that ensnared him shall be put to death.
A woman's greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
He would say that the rest of the world lived to eat, while he himself ate to live.
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
The greatest conquest is to conquer oneself.
The greatest mistake of a man is to think that he is not a man.
The surface of any sphere is four times its greatest circle.
The library at Alexandria is the greatest treasure in the world.
The greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.
It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.
The greater part of what we say and do is unnecessary, and if a man would cut it out, he would have more leisure and less disturbance.
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.