Food & Drink Sayings

Is it the fault of wine if a fool drinks it and goes stumbling into darkness?

O human race, born for flight to heaven, why do you fall for a breath of wind?

The greatest gift that God in his bounty bestowed on creation was the freedom of the will.

O you who have sound intellects, look closely at the doctrine that is hidden beneath the veil of the strange verses!

At the grand vermillion gates, wine and meat spoils, while the road outside is paved with frozen bones.

Who can't stop drinking may get drunken three times a month. If he does it more often, he is guilty. To get drunken twice a month is better; once, still more praiseworthy. But not to drink at all - what could be better than this? But where could such…

The Miller's prominent feature was his nose with 'a wart on which there stood a tuft of hair Red as the bristles in an old sow's ear'.

She would weep if she saw a mouse Caught in a trap, if it were dead or bled. She had some small hounds that she fed With roasted meat, or milk and fine white bread.

I can't trust those who sneer at us drinking down to the lees: That is the kind of thing which gets a bad name for religion.

Saki! with the light of wine, up-kindle the cup of ours. Minstrel! speak, saying: The worlds work hath gone to the desire of ours.

O thou void of knowledge of the joy of the perpetual wine-drinking of ours.

If the young Magian, wine-seller, display such splendor, I will make my eye-lash the dust-sweeper of the door of the wine-house.

Hafez uttereth a prayer. Listen: say an amin! Be my daily food the lips sugar-scattering of Thine.

Again the garden has got the glitter of Spring: The nightingale hears good news, for the rose is come. Soft wind returning to the young plants of the meadow, Greet for us the rose, the cypress and the sweet basil. They are spread for the wedding-feas…

The people of this city are very strange. They eat rice with their hands, and they do not use spoons or forks like us.

I saw a bird in this land that was as big as an ostrich, but it had a long neck like a giraffe. It was a most peculiar creature.

The food in this land is very spicy. My mouth was on fire after every meal, but I still enjoyed it.

I saw a fish in this land that had legs and could walk on land. It was a most extraordinary creature.

The climate in this land is very hot. I sweated so much that my clothes were always damp.

I saw a snake in this land that was as thick as a tree trunk. It was a monstrous creature, and I quickly fled.