Food & Drink Sayings

Devil, if you want to eat me, start from behind.

Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.

Eat to please yourself, but dress to please others.

I hope before long to crush you in my arms and cover you with a million kisses burning as though beneath the equator.

When you beat my pitch, young gentlemen, I'll try again.

I'm extremely glad for you, Messire. Great tidings! Now you can read Cervantes in the original.

The greatest human endeavor is the striving for a good character.

Money is a great servant but a bad master.

Away, you starvelling, you elf-skin, you dried neat's-tongue, bull's-pizzle, you stock-fish!

Litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees.

'Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit. Will condescend to take a bit.

The greater the sinner, the greater the need for God's grace.

God created everything by number, weight and measure.

The greatest wisdom consists in knowing what is truly useful.

Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed.

The greatest pleasure and the greatest knowledge is to understand why everything is as it is.

The knowledge of the cause of things is a great part of philosophy.

The greatest danger to American freedom is a highly centralized government.

I would rather be a great grandmother than a great empress.

When you are a great man, you must also be a great butcher.