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Good bread cannot be baked out of bad wheat.
ID:292
Who has two meals may accept nothing from a charity kitchen.
ID:305
Wine is the cause of a great deal, and so is childhood.
ID:335
Eat what you like but dress in the fashion!
ID:370
Who eats fat sleeps in the attic;
who eats greens may sleep on a dunghill unafraid.
ID:514
No one drinks from a glass without examining it first.
ID:515
A man should not drink from a glass and then give it to another.
ID:530
Eating induces sleep.
ID:531
There can be no joy without food and drink.
ID:532
Till you are forty there is profit in eating,
from then on drinking prospers.
ID:533
Talk not while you eat, lest windpipe anticipate gullet (and life be in danger)!
ID:534
If, after eating, you do not walk four cubits before bed, your food will stay undigested.
ID:535
Food to a man is like oil to a lamp.
ID:536
Eat that you may live!
ID:537
The less you eat, the less sick you will be.
ID:538
The wise man says: I will eat to live, and the fool says: I will live to eat.
ID:539
When young I ate so that I could write;
in old age I write so that I may eat.
ID:540
The less you eat in the evening,
the sounder you will sleep.
ID:541
Eating is the best of prayers.
ID:542
Eating without drinking is like an undressed wound.
ID:631
Do not offer your food to one who has no appetite for it!
ID:632
Food is not to be treated with scorn.
ID:729
Who eats even plain bread and salt with his friend
should be grateful to him.
ID:786
A cheerful heart is an unending banquet.
ID:824
Any man that has a heart will long for homeland
more than for his sustenance.