Algren Nelson 1909-1981
A Walk on the Wild Side
Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never go to bed with a woman whose troubles are greater than your own.
Anonymous
(placard at Countryside March, 1998)
Eat British Lamb: 50,000 foxes can't be wrong.
Anonymous
(car bumper sticker)
Life is uncertain - eat dessert first.
Anonymous
To eat is human, to digest, divine.
Auden W.H. 1907-1973
It is nonsense to speak of ‘higher' and ‘lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is, rightly, more important that he eat than that he philosophize.
The Bible
New Testament: II Thessalonians ch.3 v.10
If any would not work, neither should he eat.
The Bible
Old Testament: Ecclesiastes ch.8 v.15
A man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat,
and to drink, and to be merry.
The Bible
Old Testament: Genesis ch.3 v.13
The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
The Bible
Old Testament:Isaiah ch.22 v.13
Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we shall die.
Burns Robert 1759-1796
‘The Kirkudbright Grace'
Some have meat and cannot eat,
Some cannot eat that want it:
But we have meat and we can eat,
Sae let the Lord be thankit.
Churchill Sir Winston 1874-1965
(attributed)
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile -
hoping it will eat him last.
Inge William R. 1860-1954
The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive.
Marie-Antoinette Queen 1755-1793
(on being told that her people had no bread)
Qu'ils mangent de la brioche
Let them eat cake.
Maugham W. Somerset 1874-1965
Dinner, a time when ... one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
Moliére 1622-1673
The Miser
One should eat to live, and not live to eat.
Raleigh Sir Walter Alexander 1861-1922
‘Stans Puer ad Mensam'
Eat slowly: only men in rags
And gluttons old in sin
Mistake themselves for carper bags
And tumble victuals in.
Stevens Wallace 1879-1955
Frogs Eat Butterflies. Snakes Eat Frogs. Hogs
Eat Snakes. Men Eat Hogs.
Wright Ronald 1908-
Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.