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English speaking countries | | Date: Centuries-old | Notes: Folk Sayings or Proverbs on Eating and Drinking
A
o After dinner comes the reckoning.
o After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile.
o Ain't no pot so crooked, you can't find a lid to fit.
o All bread is not baked in one oven.
o All sugar and honey.
o An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
o Any excuse is a good excuse to have a drink.
o Appetite comes with eating.
o As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country. [Old Testament]
o As like as two peas.
o As like an apple to an oyster.
o As the best wine makes the sharpest vinegar, the truest lover may turn into the worst enemy.
o As you brew, so must you drink.
B
o Before you make a friend eat a bushel of salt with him.
o Better weak beer than lemonade.
C
o A cabin with plenty of food is better than a hungry castle.
o A clean fast is better than a dirty breakfast.
o The cream always rises to the top.
o Come on in, we don't have much but you're welcome to it.
o The company makes the feast.
D
o The devil places a pillow for a drunken man to fall upon.
o Don't bite off more than you can chew (Meaning: Do not take on more responsibility than you can handles at any one time).
o Don't bite the hand that feeds you (Meaning: Behave deferentially to those who provide for you).
o Don't cry over spilled milk. Or, It's no use crying over spilled milk. (Meaning: Don't worry about things that have already happened).
o Don't make little of your dish for it may be an ignorant fellow who judges it.
o Don't make me eat my words.
o Don't put all your eggs in one basket (Meaning: Do not rest all your hopes on one eventuality; plan for several cases).
o A drink precedes a story.
o A drunken man's words are a sober man's thoughts.
o The drunken mouth reveals the heart's secrets.
E
o Early ripe, early rotten.
o Eat at pleasure, drink with measure.
o Eat crow (Meaning: Having to admit one was wrong.).
o Eat, drink and be merry (for tomorrow we die).
o Eat humble pie (Meaning: Having to admit one was wrong.).
o Eat like a bird (Meaning: Eating a very small amount.).
o Eat to live, don't live to eat.
o Eat well, drink in moderation and sleep sound, in these three good health abound.
o Enough and no waste is as good as a feast.
o Every pea helps to fill the pod.
F
o A fast is better than a bad meal.
o Fasting comes after feasting.
o The fat is in the fire.
o Feast today and fast tomorrow.
o Fine words butter no parsnips.
o Forbidden fruit is sweet. Or, Forbidden fruit is sweetest.
o A full cup must be carried steadily.
o A full person does not understand the needs of the hungry.
G
o Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime (Meaning: to it is better to know how to help yourself than to beg from others).
o Good as drink is, it ends in thirst.
o Good eating deserves good drinking.
o God gives food but does not cook it.
H
o Half a loaf is better than none (Meaning: Be thankful for what you've got).
o He should have a long spoon that sups with the devil.
o He that eats of the king's goose shall be choked with feathers.
o He that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.
o He that is of merry heart hath a continual feast.
o He that lives on hope will die fasting.
o He that steals an egg will steal an ox.
o He who sups with the devil has need of a long spoon. Or, He should have a long spoon that sups with the devil.
o He that will eat the kernel must crack the nut.
o He that would eat the fruit, must climb the tree.
o He who bites the hand that feeds him, ends up licking the boot that kicks him.
o He who sleeps forgets his hunger.
o He who would eat, crack the kernel.
o Hold food in your hand and the dog will bite it.
o The honey is sweet but the bee has a sting.
o Honey is sweet, but don't lick it off a briar.
o A honey tongue, a heart of gall.
o Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.
o Hunger is a good sauce.
o Hunger is the best spice.
o Hunger never saw bad bread.
o A hungry belly has no ears.
o A hungry man is an angry man.
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o I am going to feed you a shut-up sandwich. Meaning: Please shut up if you will really annoy me.
o I don't break bread with a jackass. (Archaic)
o If life gives you lemons, make lemonade (Meaning: make the best of a bad situation).
o If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
o If you want breakfast in bed, sleep in the kitchen.
o It's better to find a whole worm in your apple than half a worm.
o It's easy to halve the potato where there's love.
o It's no use boiling your cabbage twice.
o It is not fish until it is on the bank.
o It is sweet to drink but bitter to pay for.
o It's the first drop that destroys you, there's no harm at all in the last.
o It is the quiet pig that eats the meal. Or, It is the quiet pigs that eat the meal.
J
o Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today [From Alice in Wonderland].
K
Know which side your bread is buttered on.
L
o Life is just a bowl of cherries (Meaning: Life is good).
o Life's like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.
o Life is too short to drink bad wine.
o Listen to the sound of a the river and you will get a trout.
M
o Man cannot live by bread alone.
o A man takes a drink, the drink takes a drink, the drink takes the man.
o A man without dinner -- two for supper!
o "My advice to you is not to inquire why or whiter, but just enjoy your ice cream while it is on your plate." [Thornton Wilder]
o My pig won't eat that slop.
N
o A narrow neck keeps the bottle from being emptied in one swig.
o A nod from a lord is a breakfast for a fool.
o Never bolt your door with a boiled carrot.
o Never mix your liquor.
O
o One for the road.
o Overdone is worse than underdone.
P
o Poor men seek meat for their stomach, rich men stomach for their meat.
o A pot of milk is ruined by a drop of poison.
o The proof of the pudding is in the eating. Or, The proof is in the pudding. Or, the proof of the eating is in the size of the pudding.
o Promises won't butter any bread.
R
Rather go to bed without a supper than run in debt for a breakfast.
S
o Same meat, different gravy (Meaning: Same trouble, different day).
o A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.
o Stolen fruit is the sweetest (Meaning: forbidden things are the most tempting).
o Sweet things are bad for the teeth.
T
o That's a bigger curd than I can chew.
o That's a mouthful if I ever heard one (Meaning: Getting information one hadn't expected).
o The truth is in the wine (Meaning: a person will more freely divulge a secret when plied with alcohol).
o There is no such thing as a free lunch.
o There's small choice in rotten apples.
o They talk of my drinking but never my thirst.
o They that have no other meat, bread and butter, they are glad to eat.
o Too many cooks spoil the broth.
o A trout in the pot is better than a salmon in the sea.
o A turkey never voted for an early Christmas.
W
o Waste not, want not.
o A watched pot never boils.
o Water, water everywhere not a drop to drink.
o What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
o The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.
o When one is hungry, everything tastes good.
o When the apple is ripe it will fall.
o When the well is dry, you know the worth of water.
o When you taste honey, remember gall.
Y
o You are what you eat.
o You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar (Meaning: Kind words/actions are more effective than harsh ones).
o You can't eat your cake and have it too.
o You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.
o You cannot unscramble eggs.
o You have to take the bitter with the sweet.
o You may as well give cherries to a pig as advice to a fool.
o You need to bait the hook to catch the fish.
o You never miss a slice from a cut loaf.
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French speaking countries | | Date: Centuries-old | Notes: Folk Sayings or Proverbs on Eating and Drinking from French speaking countries
A
o in English translation: (Literally) Appetite comes while eating.
- English equivalent: The more you have, the more you want.
- French original: L'appetit vient en mangeant.
B
o Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune.
- Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.
o The belly overrules the head.
o Better a single grape for me than a brace of figs for thee.
C
o A cake and a bad custom ought to be broken.
o A cake eaten in peace is worth two in trouble.
o Chickens don't praise their own soup.
D
o A dealer in onions is a good judge of scallions.
o in English translation: Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
- French original: Il ne faut pas mettre tous ses oeufs dans le meme panier.
o in English translation: (literally) Don't sell the bearskin before you've killed the bear.
- English equivalent: Don't count your chickens before they've hatched.
- French original: Il ne faut pas vendre la peau de l'ours avant de l'avoir tue.
o Don't spit in the well as you may have to drink its water.
E
o in English translation: (Literally) Eat blackbirds if you can't have thrushes.
- English equivalent: Half a loaf is better than no bread.
- French original: Faute de grives on mange des merles.
o in English translation: Eat your fish while it is fresh, marry your daughter while she is young.
- French original: Mange ton poisson a present qu'il est frais, marie ta fille a present qu'elle est jeune.
o in English translation: Eat to live, don't live to eat.
- French original: Il faul manger pour vivre, et non vivre pour manage.
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o The flawed pot lasts longest.
o in English translation: Forbidden fruits are the best.
- French original: Les fruits defendus sont les meilleurs
o The fox says of the mulberries when he cannot get at them -- they are not good at all.
G
o Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth.
o Garlic by the tang, bread by the color.
o in English translation: A good meal must begin with hunger.
- French original: Bon epas doit commencer par la faim.
o Greedy eaters dig their graves with their teeth.
H
o Honey is sweet but bees sting.
o in English translation: Hunger chases the wolf out of the woods.
- French original: La faim chasse le loup hors du bois.
o Hunger makes anything taste well.
o Hunger is the best sauce.
I
o I know by mine own pot how others boil.
o It is the hen which sings which has laid the egg (Meaning: The guilty dog barks the loudest).
o in English translation: (Literally) IT is necessary to break the shell to have the almond.
- English equivalent: No pain, no gain.
- French original: Il faut casser le noyau pour avoir l'amande.
o in English translation: (Literally) It's the drop of water that makes the jug overflow.
- English equivalent: It's the straw that breaks the camel's back.
- French original: C'est la goutte d'eau qui fait deborder le vase.
L
o The last drop makes the cup runneth over.
N
o Never say, Fountain, I will not drink of thy water.
o No clock is more regular than the belly.
o Nothing must disturb a man of worth at dinner.
O
o One may tire of eating tarts.
P
o People who have bread to eat do not appreciate the severity of a famine.
o English equivalent: The pot that calls the kettle back.
- French original: C'est la poele qui se moque du chaudron.
- in English translation (Literally): It's the stove mocking the cauldron.
S
o Since the wine is drawn it must be drunk.
o in English translation: (Literally) Sing to a donkey, he will fart on you.
- English equivalent: Hold food in your hand and the dog will bite it.
- French original: Chantez a l'ane, il vous fera des pets.
o Some have bread who have no teeth left.
o Spare your breath to cool your porridge.
o Stolen bread stirs the appetite.
o Stolen fruit is sweet.
T
o There are more old drunkards than old doctors.
o To rise at five, dine at nine sup at five, go to bed at nine, makes a man live to ninety-nine.
o in English translation: The truth is in the wine.
- French original: La verite est dans le vin.
W
o Where rosemary grows the wife wears the trousers.
o Where the hostess is handsome the wine is good.
o in English translation: Who eats capon, capon comes to him.
- French original: Peu importe le flacon, tant qui'il ya a l'ivresse. o in English translation: Who eats capon, capon comes to him.
o Without bread and wine even love will pine.
o Wine poured out is not wine swallowed.
o Wine will not keep in a foul vessel.
Y
o in English translation: (Literally) You can't have both the butter and the money from the butter.
- English equivalent: You can't have your cake and eat it too.
- French original: On ne peut avoir le beuree et l'argent du beurre.
o in English translation: You can't have the bacon and the pig.
- English equivalent: You can't have your cake and eat it.
- French original: On ne peut avoir le lard et le cochon.
o in English translation: You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.
- French original: On ne fait pas d'omelette sans casser des oeufs.
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Spanish speaking countries | | Date: Centuries-old | Notes: Spanish Proverbs or Folk Sayings on Eating and Drinking
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o English equivalent: After dinner rest awhile, after supper walk a mile.
- Spanish original: La comida, a reposar; y la cena a pasear.
o English equivalent: All griefs with bread are less.
- Spanish original: Las penas con pan son menos.
o English equivalent: Appetite comes with eating.
- Spanish original: Comiendo la gana.
B
o in English translation: Between cabbage and cabbage, lettuce.
- Meaning: One has to have a mix of things to eat and live well.
- Spanish original: Entre col y col, lechuga.
D
o in English translation: Dance and eat pork in your neighbor's house.
- Meaning: Enjoy a free meal when offered.
- Spanish original: Baile y cochino, en la casa del vecino.
o Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
E
o in English translation: Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we die.
- Spanish original: Dentro de cien anos todos calvos.
o Eating sets the head to rights.
o Every cask smells of the wine it contained.
F
o Fire, fire, many pots on, and one pea in them all.
o A full stomach makes for a happy heart.
o English equivalent: For a good appetite there is no hard bread.
- Spanish original: Al hambre desiete dias, no hay pan duro.
o in English translation (literally): From the mouth of a drunk the sounds of a bar.
- Meaning: Disregard what a drunk man says.
- Spanish original: A boca de borracho, oidos de cantinero.
o in English translation (literally): Full stomach, happy heart.
- Meaning: Satisfaction ensures compliance.
- Spanish original: Barriga illena, corazon contento.
G
o in English translation (literally): Give me bread and call me stupid.
- Meaning: There's no problem if you call me stupid so long as you remember to give me bread to eat.
- Spanish original: Dame pan y llamane tonto.
o in English translation: God gives bread to those who don't have teeth.
- Meaning: There is no justice in the world.
- Spanish original: Dios da pan a quien no tiene dientes.
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o in English translation: He who has scaled himself on milk weeps when she sees a cow.
- Spanish original: El que se ha quemado con leche al veruna vaca llora.
o English equivalent: Hunger is the best gravy.
- Spanish original: A buen hambre no hay pan duro.
- in English translation (Literally) There is no hard bread if you are hungry.
o in English translation: Hunger makes one rather ingenuious.
- Spanish original: El hambre aguza el ingenio.
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o I don't want the cheese; I just want out of the trap.
o in English translation (literally): If there's no bread, cakes will do.
- Meaning: Settle for the next best thing.
- Spanish original: A falta de pan, buenas son tortas.
M
o English equivalent: Man cannot live by bread alone.
- Spanish original: No solo de pan vive el hombre.
o in English translation: Many hands in the pot cause the stew to be lost.
- Meaning: If there are too many people trying to do something, the end result will be no good.
o Spanish original: Muchas manos en la olla echan el guiso a perder.
O
o One drink is just right; two is too many -- three are too few.
o in English translation: One bad apple can cause one hundred to be lost (or spoiled).
- Spanish original: Una manzana podrida echa un ciento a perder.
P
o in English translation: Papaya that is served, papaya that is eaten.
- Spanish original: A papaya puesta, papaya partida.
R
o in English translation: Rice that is not stirred will burn.
- Meaning: Just do it (Be active).
- Spanish original: Arroz que no se menea, se quema.
S
o Since we have loaves let us not look for cakes.
o Sour wine, old bacon, and rye bread keep a house rich.
T
o There is no choicer morsel than that which is stolen.
o There is no such witness as a good measure of wine.
o in English translation (literally): Two rations are served to whom does not want any.
- Meaning: Greater than normal waste.
- Spanish original: Al que no quiere caldo se le dan dos tazas.
o Truth and oil always come to the surface.
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o in English translation (literally): Water you should not drink, let it flow.
- Meaning: If you don't need something, leave it for others to be used; be generous. Or, Don't take what which is not rightly yours.
- Spanish original: Aqua que no has de beber, dejala correr.
o What my neighbor eats does my stomach no good.
o English equivalent: When one is hungry everything tastes good.
- Spanish original: A buena hambre no hace falta condimento.
o in English translation: When one is quite hungry, there's no hardened (or stale) bread.
- Spanish original: A buen hambre no hay pan duro.
o in English translation: When one is very hungry, there's no hardened (or stale) bread.
- Spanish original: A mucha hambre, no hay pan duro.
o When you cut a new loaf of bread, don't drink water [drink wine].
o Wherever two can eat, three can eat.
- in Spanish original: Donde comen dos comen tres.
o Whether you boil snow or pound it, all you get is water.
o in English translation (Literally) With bread and wine one can walk on.
Meaning: After one has a bit of bread and wine, one feels good, and one can go about one's business in a contended fashion.
- Spanish original: Con pan y vino se anda el camino.
o The wolf and the dog agree, at the expense of the goat which together they eat.
o in English translation: The world is like a pepper: today you have it in your hand, tomorrow it's in your ass.
- Spanish original: El mundo es como un pepino: hoy lo tienes en la mano, manana en el culo.
Y
o You notice what I drink and not the thirst I feel.
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German speaking countries | | Date: Centuries-old | Notes: German Proverbs or Folk Sayings on Eating and Drinking
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o in English translation (Literally) The appetite comes while eating.
- Meaning: Just do it. You will find out that it's fun while doing it.
- German original: Der appetit kommt beim essen.
B
o in English translation: Better your own bread than another's roast.
- Meaning: What is yours, is yours.
- German original: Besser eigenes brot als fremder braten.
D
o A drink is shorter than a tale.
o in English translation: The drunk and children tell the truth
- German original: Betrunkene und kinder sagen die wahrheit.
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o in English translation: Eat, bird, or die!(Eat or die!).
- Meaning: You're in a sticky situation where you don't have much of a choice among a wide variety of gourmet meals. And/or You've got to make do with some unpleasant prospect because the alternative is even worse.
Equivalent: It's sink or swim.
- German original: Friss vogel, oder stirb!
o in English translation (Literally) Eat what has been well cooked, drink liquids which are clear, and speak what is true.
- German original : Iss, was gar ist, trink, was klar ist, und sprich, was wahr ist.
o in English translation: Everything has an end, only sausage has two.
- German original: Alles hat ein ende, nur die wurst hat zwei.
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o Fat hen lay few eggs.
o A fish should swim thrice: in water, in sauce, and in wine.
o in English translation: The fish stinks from the head.
- Meaning: Corruption starts at the top.
- German original: Der fisch stinkt vom kopf her.
o in English translation (literally) First comes chow, then morals.
- Meaning: A hungry man cannot afford a conscience.
- German original: Erst kommt das fressen, dann kommt die moral.
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o A glutton young, a beggar old.
o A good meal is worth hanging around for.
o in English translation: Gorge what's been well cooked, drink what's available [alcohol].
- Meaning (colloquial) Fuck what's around.
- German original: Fressen was gar ist, trinken was klar ist, ficken was da ist.
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o He who has once burnt his mouth always blows his soup.
o He who would eat in Spain must bring his kitchen along.
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o Let your head be more than a funnel to your stomach.
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o in English translation: No kneading, no party.
- Meaning: If you don't have ingredients to bake with or if you don't have money to buy food with, you can't have a party.
- German original: Ohne knete keine fete.
o in English translation: (Literally) Nothing is eaten as hot as it is cooked.
- Meaning: Maximum theoretical damage (like from laws, statues, future problems) is not standard in practice, you usually get cut some slack.
- German original: Es wird nichts so heif gegessen, wie es gekocht wird.
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o in English translation: Old bread isn't hard, no bread, that is hard.
- Meaning: It is better to have some food than no food at all.
- German original: Altes brot ist nicht hart, kein brot, das ist hart.
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o When I eat your bread, I sing your song.
o in English translation : When in distress the cut tastes without bread.
- Meaning: Enjoy luxury as long as you have it.
- German original : In der not schemekt die wurst auch ohne brot.
o in English translation: Whose bread I eat, those's whose song I sing.
- English equivalent: He who pays the piper calls the tune.
- German original: Wes' brot ich ess, des' lied ich sing.
o in English translation: Wine on beer, I recommend to you. Beer on wine, leave alone.
- Meaning: Cider on beer, never fear; beer upon cider, makes a bad rider. Or, Beer on whiskey, pretty risky; whiskey on beer, have no fear.
- German original: Wein auf bier, das rat' ich dir. Bier auf wein, das lass' sein.
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o in English translation: You are what you eat.
- German original: Man ist, was man isst.
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Around the World | | Date: Centuries-old | Notes: The following list of proverbs and sayings about food and drinks was taken from the book, "Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages" classified by subject, arranged alphabetically, compiled by Robert Christy (New York: Putnam's Sons, 1887).
Bread.
1. Another's bread costs dear. Sp., For.
2. Better half a loaf than no bread.
3. Bread at pleasure drink by measure. Fr
4. Bread in one hand and a stone in the other. Ger,
5. Bread is better than the song of birds. Dan,
6. Bread is the staff of life. Swift,
7. Bread of a day, ale of a month, and wine of a year.
8. Do you want any better bread than wheaten Fr,
9. Half a loaf is better than no bread.
I0. He is as good as good bread. Don Quixote,
11. He that has store of bread may beg his milk merrily.
12. He who has no bread has no authority. Turk,
13. He who has teeth has no bread, and he who has bread has no teeth. Italian.
14. I know well what I say when I ask for bread. Sp.
15. In default of bread meal cakes are good. Por,
16. It is hard to pay for bread that has been eaten, Dan,
17. Let every man look to the bread upon which he must depend. Por,
18. Let him that earns the bread eat it.
19. Never fall out with your bread and butter.
20. Others' bread has seven crusts. Ital,
21. Others' bread is too salt. Ital,
22. Salt and bread make the cheeks red. Ger.
23. Some have bread who have no teeth left. Fr
24. The bread eaten ? the company departed. Sp, Por.
25. 'Tis a long day, a day without bread, Fr.
26. When bread is wanting oaten cakes are excellent. Sp.
27. When there*s little bread at table put plenty on your plate.
28. When you eat new bread don't drink water.
29. Where there is little bread cut first. For.
30. Whose bread I eat his song I sing.
C
Cabbage-stalks.
1. He is equal to any task that can subsist on cabbage-stalks. Chinese,
Cake.
1. I had rather my cake burn than you should turn it.
2. There is no cake but there is like 6f the same make.
3. Your cake is dough.
CHEESE
1. Cheese and bread make the cheek red. Ger.
2. Cheese from the ewe, milk from the goat, butter from the cow. Sp.
3. Cheese is gold in the morning, silver at noon and lead at night. Ger.
4. Cheese is a peevish elf, it digests all things but itself.
Cherries.
1. Those that eat cherries with great persons shall have their eyes squirted out with the stones.
2. When you hear of many cherries carry but a small basket. M. Greek
Chicken.
1. A capon eight months old is fit for a king's table. Sp. For.
2. A cock is crouse on his own midden.
3. A cock is valiant on his own dunghill.
4. A good cock was never fat.
5. A large cock does not suffer a small one to crow.
6. A laying hen is better than a standing mill. Scotch.
7. A setting hen never grows fat.
8. All cocks must have a comb. Dutch,
9. Black hens lay white eggs. Dutch,
10. Even clever hens sometimes lay their eggs among nettles. Dan.
11. Every cock scratches toward himself.
12. Every hen knows how to tread on her own chickens. Negro Africans of the West Indies,
13. Fat hens lay few eggs. Ger,
14. He who feeds the hen ought to have the egg. Dan.
15. Hens are free of horse corn. Dutch,
16. Hens like to lay where they see an egg. Dutch.
17. If the hen had not cackled, we should not know she. had laid an egg. Ital,
18. In cold weather cocks crow at midnight. Chinese,
19. It is a bad hen that eats at your house and lays at another's. Sp,
20. It is a sairy hen that cannot scrape for one bird.
21. It is not easy to guard the hen that lays her eggs abroad. Dan,
22. It is not the hen that cackles most that lays the most eggs.
23. Knowing hens lay even in nettles. Ger,
24. Large fowls will not eat small grain. Chinese,
25. Let the hen live though it be with the pip. Don Quixote,
26. Prepare a nest for the hen and she will lay eggs for you. Por,
27. She holds up her head like a hen drinking water.
28. The chicken gives advice to the hen.
29. The chicken is the country's but the city eats it.
30. The cock often crows without a victory. Dan,
31. The cock shuts his eyes when he crows because he knows it by heart. Ger,
32. The cock that sings untimely must have its head cut off. Turk,
33. The hen flies not far unless the cock flies with her. Dan,
34. The hen is ill off when the egg teaches her how to cackle.
35. The hen lays upon an egg.
36. The hen likes to lay in a nest where there are eggs already. Ger.
37. The hen lives by pickings as the lion by prey. Dan
38. The hen ought not to cackle in presence of the cock. Fr,
39. The hen sits if it be but one egg. Don Quixote.
40. The hen that stays at home picks up the crumbs.
41. The hen*s eyes are with her chickens. Fr.
42. The hen*s eyes follow her eggs. Galician.
43. The scraping hen will get something, the crouching hen nothing.
44. To force a hen to hatch chickens. Chinese.
45. To get the chicks, one must coax the hen. Fr.
46. Where the cock is the hen does not crow. For.
47. You are as busy as a hen with one chick.
48. Young cocks love no cooks.
Cook.
1. A good fire makes a good cook. Dutch,
2. A hungry man has aye a lazy cook. Scotch.
3. A lovelorn cook over salts the porridge. Ger
4. All are not cooks who carry long knives. Ger., Dutch, Dan
5. A march before day to dress one*s dinner, and a light dinner to prepare one's supper, are the best cooks. Alexander.
6. An ill cook should have a good cleaver.
7. Better bid the cooks than the mediciners.
8. But civilized man cannot live without cooks. Owen Meredith.
9. Cooks are not to be taught in their own kitchens.
10. Every cook praises his own broth.
11. Many cooks spoil the broth.
12. Salt cooks bear blame, but fresh bear shame.
13. She will as soon part with the cook as the porridge.
14. There b never enmity between the cook and the butler. Ital,
15. 'Tis an ill cook cannot lick his own fingers. Shaks,
16. When the cook and steward fall out, we hear who stole the butter. Dutch,
17. When the cook is roasting for the butler, woe unto the master's wine cask. Dan,
18. Where there are too many cooks the soup will be salt. Hal.
Cooking:
1. First catch your hare then cook it.
2. With such cooking a monkey might eat his own father.
Corn.
1. Corn him well, he'll work the better.
2. Corn in good years is hay, in ill years straw is corn.
3. Corn is not good to be gathered in the blade but in the ear.
4. He has eaten his corn in the blade. Fr.
5. Much corn lies under the straw that is not seen.
6. No corn without chaff. Dutch,
7. The corn falls out of a shaken sheaf. Fr,
8. There is plenty of com in Castile but he who has none starves. For,
9. Very good com grows in little fields. Fr,
10. It is at courts as it is in ponds, some fish, some frogs.
11. Leave the court ere the court leaves thee.
12. Like King Petard's court where every one is master.
13. The steps at court are slippery. Dan.
14. There are nine holidays out of seven days.
15. Who serves at court dies on straw. Ital.
Drink.
1. Drink and drouth come not always together.
2. Drink in the morning staring, then all day be sparing.
3. Drink little that ye may drink lang.
4. Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it. Per.
5. Drink upon salad costs the doctor a ducat, Drink upon eggs costs him two. Ger.
6. Drink washes off the daub and discovers the man.
7. Drink wine and have the gout, drink none and have it too.
8. Drink wine and let the water go to the mill. Italian
9. Drink wine upon figs. Sp,
10. Drinking kindness is drunken friendship.
11. Good drink drives out bad thoughts. Dutch.
12. Knock under the board ; he must do so that will not drink his cup.
13. Of all meat in the world drink goes down the
best.
14. Only what I drink is mine. Polish Serf.
15. The first draught a man drinks ought to be
for thirst, the second for nourishment, the third for
pleasure, and the fourth for madness.
i6. The smaller the drink the cooler the blood and the clearer the head.
17. They that drink longest live longest.
18. Thousands drink themselves to death before one dies of thirst. Ger.
19. You must drink as much after an egg as
after an ox.
Drunkard.
1. A drunkard's purse is a bottle.
2. A drunken man may soon be made to dance. Dan,
3. An old dram drinker's the devil's decoy. Berkley,
4. Drunkards have a fool's tongue and a knave's heart.
5. Drunken folk 'seldom take harm.
6. He hurts the absent who quarrels with a drunken man. Syrus,
7. He that kills a man when he is drunk must be buried under the gallows.
8. He who has drunk will drink. Fr,
9. He who likes drinking is always talking of wine. Ital,
10. He would rather have a bumper in hand than the Bible. Dutch,
11. Let the drunkard alone and he will fall of himself.
12. Often drunk and seldom sober, falls like the leaves in October.
13. Oh ! that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains. Shaks.
14. The best cure for drunkenness is while sober to see a drunken man. Chinese,
15. The drunkard and the glutton come to poverty and drowsiness that clothe a man with rags.
16. The drunkard continually assaults his own life.
17. The drunkard is discovered by his praise of wine.
18. The drunken man's joy is often the sober man*s sorrow. Dan,
19. The drunken mouth reveals the heart's secrets. Ger,
20. The wise drunkard is a sober fool. Ger,
21. There are more old drunkards than old doctors. Fr. Ger,
22. What is in the heart of the sober man is on the tongue of the drunken man. ? Lat,
23. What the sober man has in his heart, the drunken man has on his lips. Dan.
24. What the sober man thinks the drunkard tells. Fr,, Dutch.
25. You drink out of the broad end of the funnel and hold the little one to me.
Drunkenness,
1. Drunkenness brutifies even the bravest spirits. Feltham,
2. Drunkenness does not produce faults ; it discovers them, for time does not change manners; it uncovers them. Chinese,
3. Drunkenness is a bewitching devil, a pleasant poison and a sweet sin. Augustine,
4. Drunkenness is a pair of spectacles to see the devil and all his works.
5. Drunkenness is an egg from which all vices are hatched.
6. Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. Seneca,
7. Drunkenness makes some men fools, some beasts and some devils.
8. Drunkenness turns a man out of himself and leaves a beast in his room.
9. Thought when sober, said when drunk. Ger,
10. What soberness conceals drunkenness reveals.
11. What you do when drunk you must pay for when sober. Scotch.
Eat.
1. A full man is no eater. For,
2. A man must eat though every tree were a gallows. Dutch.
3. A man that has had his fill is no eater. Sp,
4. A good eater must be a good man. Bea.
5. A morsel eaten gains no friends.
6. As a man eats so he Works. Ger,
7. Eat a bit before you drink.
8. Eat and, drink measurely and defy the mediciners.
9. Eat and welcome, fast and heartily welcome.
10. Eat after your own fashion, clothe yourself as others do.
11. Eat at pleasure, drink by measure.
12. Eaten bread is soon forgotten.
13. Eat bread that's light and cheese by weight. Dutch.
14. Eat little at dinner, less at supper ; Sleep aloft and you will sleep oft. Sp.
15. Eat peas with the king and cherries with the beggar.
16. Eat the fruit and don*t inquire about the tree. Turk.
17. Eat the present and break the dish {so as to be reminded of the obligation). Arabian,
18. Eat-well is Drink-well's brother.
19. Eat with him and beware of him. Por.
20. Eating and drinking make the stomach full but the purse empty. Ger.
21. Eating and drinking want but a beginning.
22. Eating and drinking take away one's hunger.
23. Eating little and speaking little can never do a man harm.
24. Eating sets the head to rights.
25. He has two stomachs to eat and one to work.
26. He that banquets every day never makes a good meal.
27. He that eats most porridge shall have most meat.
28. He that eats the king's goose shall be choked by the feathers.
29. He that eats well and drinks well should do his duty well.
30. He that eats while he lasts will be war while he die.
31. He who eats but one dish never wants a physician.
32. He who eats pears with his master should not choose the best. Ital
33. He who eats the meat let him pick the bone.
Sp.
34. If I were to fast for my life I would eat a good breakfast in the morning.
35. If you eat it up at supper, you cannot have it at breakfast. *S^.
36. If you hate a man eat his bread, if you love him do the same.
37. It is a great pleasure to eat and have nothing to pay.
38. It is dangerous to eat cherries with the great; they throw the stones at your head. Dan,
39. It is very savory to eat scot free. Sp.
40. Nice eaters seldom meet with a good dinner.
41. Often and little eating makes a man fat.
42. One does not eat acorns when he has peaches. Ger.
43. One is never well at table unless there be four in company. Arabian Nights.
44. One may be surfeited by eating tarts. Fr.
45. People must eat if every tree were a gallows. Dutch. Dan.
46. She that is ashamed to eat at table eats in private.
47. Some eat the stew, then ask for the pan.
48. To eat and to scratch one has but to begin. sp.
49. To good eating belongs good drinking. Ger.
50. Who eats and leaves has another good' meal.
51. Who eats his dinner alone must saddle his horse alone. Sp. For.
Egg
1. A rotten egg cannot be spoiled.
2. A white egg often comes from a black hen. Ger.
3. A wild goose never laid a tame egg, Irish.
4. All your eggs have two yolks apiece I war-
rant you.
5. "An egg's an egg" said the boor, and took
the goose egg. Ger., Dutch.
6. An egg is the only clean thing in a slovenly house-wife's kitchen.
7. An unlaid egg is an uncertain thing. Ger.
8. Better a half an egg than an empty shell.
9. Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
10. Eggs and oaths are easily broken. Da.
11. Eggs are close things, but the chicks come out at last. Chinese,
12. Eggs are put to hatch on chance. Fr.
13. Eggs of an hour, fish of ten; bread of a day, wine of a year ; a woman of fifteen and a man of thirty.
14. He has lost the nest egg, Dutch,
15. He lays his eggs beside his nest. Dutch,
16. He that will have eggs must have cackling. Dutch,
17. He who treads on eggs must tread lightly. Ger,
18. It is hard to shave an egg,
19. Neither good egg nor bird.
20. One rotten egg spoils the whole pudding. Ger,
21. One should not put too many eggs under
one hen. Ger
22. One should not sell the egg until it is laid. Ger,
23. Out of a white egg often comes a black chick.
24. Presented eggs are always fresh. Ger,
25. Send not for a hatchet with which to break open an egg,
26. Shave the egg and take its hair. M, Greek,
27. Sometimes an egg is given for an ox. Ital
28. The egg teaches the hen and the tile the potter. Ger,
29. The egg will be more knowing than the hen. Ger,
30. There goes reasoning to the roasting of eggs.
31. To cackle and lay no egg.
32. Unlaid eggs are uncertain chickens. Ger,
33. Upon an egg the hen lays an egg, Fr,
34. You will find it out when you v/ant to fry the eggs. Sp,
Fish.
I. A fish should swim three times: in water, in sauce and in wine. Ger.
2. A little bait catches a large fish.
3. All fish are not caught with flies.
4. Better fish is to be had in Billingsgate than the sea-coast.
5. Better small fish than an empty dish.
6. Big fish spring out of the kettle. Dutch.
7. Damning and lying guide sure fishing.
8. Don't teach fishes to swing. Fr.
9. Even that fish may be caught that strives the hardest against it.
10. Every fish is not a sturgeon. Russian.
11. Every fish that escapes, appears greater than it is. Turk.
12. Fish are not to be caught with a bird call.
13. Fish begin to stink at the head.
14. Fish make no broth.
15. Fish must swim thrice : once in the water, once in the sauce, and a third time in wine in the stomach.
16. Fish spoils water but flesh mends it.
17. Fish are cast away that are cast into dry
ponds.
18. Fishes follow the bait.
19. From great rivers come great fish. For.
20. Go to the sea if you would fish well Ital
21. Great fish are caught/ in great waters. Ger.
22. Great fishes break the net. Dutch.
23. He fishes on who catches one. Fr.
24. He is a poor fisherman that will not wet his feet. Get.
25. He that fishes afore the net, lang 'ere fish get.
26. He that lets his fish escape, may cast his net often yet never catch it again.
27. He that sets his net betimes may expect a fuller draught than he that fishes later.
28. He who catches one fish is a fisherman. Sp.
29. He who does not bait his hook fishes in vain. Fr., Ger.
30. He who wants to catch fish must not mind a wetting. Por,
31. I had no thought of catching you when I fished for another.
32. I have other fish to fry.
33. If you swear, you'll catch no fish.
34. If you take away the salt you may throw the fish to the dogs.
35. In the deepest water is the best fishing.
36. It is a silly fish that is caught twice by the same bait.
37. It is good fishing in troubled waters. Fr,, Sp,, Dutch.
38. It is no use fishing until you have baited your hook.
39. It is the bait that lures, not the fisherman or the rod. Sp,
40. Like fish that live in salt water, yet are fresh.
41. Little fish are sweet. Dutch.
42. Make not your sauce until you have caught your fish.
43. Neither fish nor flesh nor good red herring. Sir H, Sheers.
44. Never fish in troubled waters.
45. No man cries stinking fish.
46. Old be your fish, your oil, your friend.
47. One must lose a minnow to catch a salmon. Fr.
48. Sma' fish are better than nae fish.
49. That fish will soon be caught that nibbles at every bait.
50. The best fish swim near the bottom.
51, The big fish eat the little ones. Fr., Italian, M. Greek.
52, The big fish eat the little ones, the little ones
eat the shrimps, and the shrimps are forced to eat
much. Chinese.
53. The end of fishing is not angling but catching.
54. The fish by struggling in the net hampers itself the more.
55. The fish comes to his senses after he gets in-
to the net. Turk.
56. The fish lead a pleasant life : they drink when they like. Ger.
57. The fish may be caught in a net, that will not come to a hook-
58. The fisherman fishes in troubled waters. Par.
59. The hasty angler loses the fish.
60. The hasty hand catches frogs for fish.
61, There are as good fish in the sea as ever were caught.
62. There is no catching trouts with dry breeches. Por.
63'Tis not for every one to catch a salmon.
64. Tis rare to find a fish that will not bite gomclime or other, '
65 To fish with a goJden hook, Latin.
66. Where iheie are no sh, even a crawfish calls
htm^tli ♦! Fifth. Russian.
67. Who cannot catch fish must catch shrimps. Chinese.
68. Who fishes with a golden hook catches what he will.
69. Without a bait fish is not caught M. Greek.
70. Young flesh and old fish are best
Food.
I. A man hath often more trouble to get food than to digest it.
Fruit.
1. Better the fruit lost than the tree. Ger,
2. Blossoms are not fruits. Dutch.
3. But the fruit that can fall without shaking, indeed is too mellow for me. Mrs, Montagu,
4. Can you mature fruit by beating it with a stick when it does not ripen of itself ? Tamil
5. Forbidden fruit is sweetest.
6. Fruit ripens not in the shade.
7. Fruit and grain are half a year in concocting. Bacon,
8. If you would fruit have, you must carry the leaf to the grave; you must transplant your trees about the fall of the leaf,
9. I would have the fruit, not the basket.
10. If you would enjoy the fruit pluck not the flower.
11. Late fruit keeps well. Ger,
12. Little wood, much fruit. Dutch,
13. No autumn fruit without spring blossom.
14. Nothing so good as forbidden fruit. Fr,
15. That which blossoms in the spring will bring forth fruit in the autumn.
16. The better the fruit the more wasps to eat it. Ger,
17. The fruit falls not far from the stem. Dutch,
18. The ripest fruit first falls.
19. There is no worse fruit than that which never ripens. Ital,
20. We cannot eat the fruit whilst the tree is in blossom. Bea,
21. When all fruit fails welcome haws.
22. You seek for fruit in the garden of Tantalus. Latin,
Frying-pan.
1. A blow from a frying-pan though it may not hurt, sullies. Sp,
2. A frying-pan will not wait for the king of Cordova. Bea,
3. He has enough to do who holds the handle of the frying-pan. . Fr,
4. He has fallen out of the frying-pan into the fire ; i,e. gone from bad to worse,
5. He that holds the frying-pan runs the risk of burning himself. Fr,
6. He who holds the handle of the frying-pan turns it as he pleases. Fr,
7. The kettle smuts the frying-pan. Fr,
8. To have one eye on the cat and another on the frying-pan. Fr.
Hunger
1. A good repast ought to begin with hunger.
2. A hungry ass eats any straw.
3. A hungry stomach has no ears.
Fr., Ital., Ger. Sp. For., Duth.
4. A hungry clown is half mad. Fr.
5. A hungry dog and a thirsty horse take no
heed of blows. Dan.
6. A hungry dog does not fear the stick.
7. A hungry horse maketh a clean manger.
8. A hungry kite sees a dead horse afar off.
9. A hungry man discovers more than a hundred lawyers. Sp.
10. A hungry man is an angry man.
11. A hungry man sees far.
12. A hungry man smells meat afar off.
13. A hungry wolf has sharp teeth. Ger.
14. A hungry wolf is not at rest. Far.
15. A man who wants bread is ready for any-
thing. Fr.
16. A starved belly has no ears. Fr.
17. A starved town is soon forced to surrender.
Ital
18. As hunger as a church mouse.
19. Bakers and millers are last to die of hunger.
Ger.
20. Better cross an angry man than a fasting man.
Dan.
21. He that's full takes no care of him that's fasting.
22. He thinks of everything who wants bread.
23. Hunger and cold surrender a man to his enemy. Sp. For,
24. Hunger and thirst scarcely kill any,
But gluttony and drink kill a great many.
25. Hunger becomes the teacher of many. M. Greek.
26. Hunger changes beans into almonds. Ital.
27. Hunger drives the wolf out of the woods.
Fr., Ital., Ger., Dutch.
28. Hunger drives the workman over snow and
ice. Ger.
29. Hunger eats through stone walls. Dutch.
30. Hunger fears no gallows. Ger.
31. Hunger finds no fault with the cooking.
32. Hunger is a sharp, fierce dog.
West Indian Africans.
33. Hunger is better than a French cook.
Fielding.
34. Hunger is good kitchen meat.
35. Hunger is insolent and will be fed. Homer.
36. Hunger is sharper than the sword.
Beaumont and Fletcher.
37. Hunger is the best cook. Ger.
38. Hunger is the best sauce.
Fr., Ital, DuUh, Dan.
39. Hunger is the best seasoning for meal.
Youngs Cicero,
40. Hunger is the mother of impatience and anger. Zimmerman,
41. Hunger looks in at the industrious man's
door but does not enter. Fr,
42. Hunger makes raw beans relish well.
43. Hunger sweetens beans. Latin,
44. Hunger teaches many things. Latin,
45. Hunger will obey no laws.
46. Hungry men think the cook lazy.
47. It is better to buy dearly than to hunger
direly. Dan,
48. The best sauce is hunger and that is never
wanting to the poor. Don Quixote.
49. The full belly does not believe in hunger.
Ital.
50. The hungry man is not satisfied with looking
in the full man's face. Turk.
51. The open mouth never remains hungry.
Russian.
52. The well-fed man does not believe in hunger.
Ital.
53. To the hungry no bread is bad.
Honey.
1. A drop of honey catches more flies than a hogshead of vinegar. Ger,
2. A little gall spoils (or embitters) a great deal of honey.Italian, Sp.
3. Cover yourself with honey and the flies will have at you.
4. He buys honey dear who has to lick it off thorns. Dutch.
5. He is a very bad manager of honey who ieaves nothing to lick off his fingers. Fr.
6. He that licks honey from a nettle pays too dear for it.
7. He who would gather honey must bear the stings of bees. Dutch,
8. Honey cloys. Latin,
9. Honey in the mouth saves the purse. ItaL
10. Honey is not for asses. Fr. Dutch,
11. Honey is sweet but the bee stings. Fr. Dutch,
12. Honey is too good for a bear.
13. It is not by saying "honey,honey" that sweetness comes into the mouth. Turk.
14. Make yourself honey and the flies will detour you. Ital.
15. Michael, Michael^ you have no bees and yet you sell honey. Sp,
16. Where there is honey there are bees. Latin,
17. Where there is honey, there will the flies swarm. Flautus.
18. Who has eaten the honey ? He who has a fly on his umbrella. Greek.
Kitchen.
1. A fat kitchen has poverty for a neighbor. Ital.
2. A fat kitchen is next door to poverty. Ital
3. A fat kitchen makes a lean purse. Ger.
4. A fat kitchen makes a lean will. , Ger.
5. Communities begin by building their kitchens.
6. Silk and velvet put out the kitchen fire. Ger.
7. Silks and satins put out the fire in the kitchen.
8. Silks and satins, scarlet and velvets put out the kitchen fire.
9. The kitchen kills more than the sword. Ger,
10. The smallness of the kitchen makes the house the bigger.
II. The supper out of a strange kitchen tastes good. Ger-
12. The taste of the kitchen is better than the smell.
13. Who frequents the kitchen smells of smoke. Ital.
Meal.
1. A clean fast is better than a dirty breakfast
Irish.
2. A good meal is worth hanging for. Gcr,
3. A good salad may be a prologue to a bad
supper.
4. A good stomach is the best sauce.
5. A letter written after 'dinner is read in hell.
Turk
6. A little dinner long expected, and cold.
Is by no means given, but dearly sold. Fr.
7. All state and nothing on the plate. Fr.
8. At table, the company should never exceed
that of the muses, nor be under the number
of the graces.
9. Better a good dinner than a fine coat Fr,
10. Better be meals many than one too merry.
II. By suppers more have been killed than
Galen ever cured.
12. Dinners cannot be long where dainties want
13. Go to bed without supper and you'll rise
without debt Sp., Fre.
14. He fasts enough that has a bad meal.
15. He sups ill who eats up all at dinner.
16. He that saveth his dinner will have the more
for supper.
17. He that would eat a good dinner, let him eat
a good breakfast.
18. He who would have a hare for breakfast, must
hunt over night.
19. I have nothing for dinner; sit down to table.
Par.
20. Light suppers make lang life days.
21. More people are slain by suppers, than by the
sword.
22. Oil is best in the beginning, honey at the end,
and wine in the middle. Dutch.
23. Suppers kill more than greatest doctors ever
cured.
24. Supper is soon served in a plentiful house.
Por.
25. There are many days in the year, and still
I more meals. Dan.
26. Two hungry meals make the third a glutton.
27. Two ill meals make the third a glutton.
38. Unhappy is he who has not breakfasted at
three. Don Quixote.
Milk.
1. No weeping for spilt (shed) milk.
2. That which is taken in with the milk only goes out with the soul. Russian,
3. When there is milk in the can for one, there is milk in the can for two. Hans Andersen.
Mushroom.
I. In a night's time springs up a mushroom.
Palate.
I. There is no living with a man whose palate has quicker sensations than his heart. Cato.
1. Paper bears anything (or is patient).
2. Paper does not blush.
Sour Kraut.
I. Sour kraut is good for the cold fever. Ger.
Vinegar.
1. Beware of vinegar made of sweet wine. Ital.
2. He cries wine, and sells vinegar.
3. More flies are caught with a spoonful of syrup (or drop of honey) than with a cask of vinegar. Dutch, Dan.
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237. Ambitiosa non est fames. (L.) Sen. Ep. 119, 14.
Hunger is not over nice.
316. Aperit prsecordia Liber. (Z.) Hor. S. 1, 4, 89.
Wine opens the heart.
1181. Diffugiunt, cadis Cum fsece siccatis amici
Ferre jugum pariter dolosi. (L.) Hor. C. 1, 35, 26.
Unequal to misfortune's yoke
Your friends, when all the wine is gone,
Faithless will leave you alone. ? Ed.
DILATOR. 133
Cf. Diligitur nemo, nisi cui Fortuna secunda est ;
Quae, simul intonuit, proxima quaeque fugat. Ov. Ep. 2, 3, 23.
No man's beloved save when bis Fortune's bright :
When thunder's heard, off flies each parasite. ? Ed.
1298. Eamus quo ducit gula. (L.) Hoy. Ep. 1, 6, 56. Let us
go where our appetite calls us. Let us go to dinner.
2399. Jamais la cornemuse ne dit mot si elle n'a le ventre plein.
(Fr.) Prov. The bagpipe will never utter a word unless
it has its belly full. A man wants his dinner before
he can sing or speak.
2418. Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit. (L.) Hor. S. 2, 2, 38. A hungry stomach does not often despise coarse food.
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A barley-corn is better than a diamond to a cock.
A black hen will lay a white egg.
A cook is known by his knife.
A hungry man smells meat afar off.
A long harvest and a little corn.
A quick baker, and a slow brewer.
All her dishes are chafing-dishes.
All sorts of sweets are not wholesome.
All your eggs have two yolks apiece, I warrant you.
An egg and to bed.
An emmet may work its heart out, but can never make honey.
After cheese comes nothing.
After death, the doctor.
After meat, mustard.
Be content, the sea hath fish enough.
Better a mouse in the pot than no flesh at all.
Better belly burst than good drink lost.
Bees that have honey in their mouths, have stings in their
tails.
Bread with eyes, cheese without eyes, and wine that leaps
up to the eyes.
But one egg, and that addled too.
Food fate, money
Butter is gold in the morning, silver at noon, and lead at night.
By the husk you may guess at the nut.
Carry your knife even between the paring and the apple,
Cooks are not to be taught in their own kitchen.
Corn in good years is hay, in ill years straw is corn.
Corn is not to be gathered in the blade but the ear.
Drink and drought come not always together.
Drink washes off the daub and discovers the man.
Drink wine, and have the gout, drink none, and have too.
Drink wine in winter for cold, and in summer for heat.
Drinking kindness is drunken friendship.
Drunkards have a fool's tongue and a knave's heart.
Drunkenness is a pair of spectacles to see the devil and all
his works.
Drunkenness makes men fools; some beasts, some devils.
Drunkenness turns a man out of himself, and leaves a beast in his room.
Eat, and welcome ; fast, and heartily welcome.
Eat peas with the king, and cherries with the beggar.
Eat-well is drink-weirs brother.
Eaten bread is forgotten.
Eggs will be in three bellies in four and twenty hours.
Enough is as good as a feast.
Enough is a feast, too much a vanity.
Enough to keep the wolf from the door.
Enquire not what boils in another's pot.
Even sugar itself may spoil a good dish.
Fat housekeepers make lean executors.
Feasting makes no friendship.
Fish makes no broth.
Fruit ripens not well in the shade.
Half a loaf is better than no bread
He eats in plate, but will die in irons.
He eats the calf in the cow's belly.
He has but bad food that feeds upon the faults of others.
He has drank more than he has bled to-day.
He has eat up the pot and asks for the napkin.
He never was good, neither egg nor bird.
He opens an oyster with a dagger.
He that eats most porridge shall have most meat.
He that eats the king's geese shall be choked with the
feathers.
He that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.
He that eats well and drinks well should do his duty well.
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He that licks honey from a nettle pays too dear for it.
He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
Hunger cannot bear contradiction.
Hunger fetches the wolf out of the woods.
Hunger finds no fault with the cookery.
Hunger is not dainty.
Hunger is not satisfied with wise sentences.
Hunger is the best sauce.
Hunger makes raw beans relish well.
Hunger scarce kills any, but gluttony and drunkenness multitudes.
Hunger will break through stone walls.
Hungry dogs will eat dirty puddings.
Hungry horses make a clean manger.
Hungry men think the cook lazy.
I will not suffer you to pay for this in another world.
I would have the fruit, not the basket.
I would not have your cackling for your eggs.
If you sell a cow, you sell her milk too.
Malice drinketh up the greatest part of its own poison.
Much meat, much malady.
Mustard is good sauce, but mirth is better.
Sour grapes can never make sweet wine.
The taste of the kitchen is better than the smell.
When the belly is full, the bones are at rest.
When wine sink swords swim.
When you have given me roast meat you beat me with
the spit.
Where bees are there is honey.
Where content is there is a feast.
Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.
Wine in the hogshead quencheth no thrist.
Wine is a turn-coat; first a friend, and then an enemy.
Wine is the vintner's, but the goodness of it the drawer's.
Wine neither keeps secrets, nor fulfils promises.
Wine shows what a man is.
Wine that costeth nothing, is digested before it be drank.
Wine turns a man inside outwards.
Wine washeth off the dawb.
You drink vinegar when you have wine at your elbow.
You eat up that grass, which I meant to make hay of.
You to the cabbage and I to the beef.
Your belly will never let your back be warm.
Your bread is buttered on both sides.
Your cake is dough.
Your egg is ready roasted to your hand.
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Around the World | | Date: Centuries-old | Notes: The following list of proverbs about food and drinks was taken from "A BOOK OF QUOTATIONS PROVERBS AND HOUSEHOLD WORDS, a Collection of Quotations from British and American Authors, Ancient and Modem; with many Thousands of Proverbs, Familiar Phrases and Sayings, from all sources, including Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, Latin, French, German, Spanish, Italian, and other Languages," by W. GURNEY BENHAM (PHILADELPHIA: J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY & London: CASSELL & Company, 1907). The book is available for free at www.archive.org.
It I were to fast for my life, I would eat a good breakfast in the morning, (R.)
He that would eat a good dinner, let him eat a good breakfast. (R.)
A cheerful look makes a dish a feast. (G. H.)
A cherry year, a merry year; A plum year, a dumb year. (B.)
A windy year, an apple year; a rainy Easter, a cheese year.? (Fr.)
A drop of honey catches more flies than a hogshead of vinegar.
A drunkard's purse is a bottle. (G. H.)
A drunken man is not at home.
A fat kitchen, a lean legacy.?
A fool and his money are soon parted. (E.)
A friend's meat is soon ready. ? (Fr.)
A hungry belly has no ears.
A hungry man is an angry man. (E.)
A hungry man sees far. (E. Sc.)
A sharp stomach makes short devotion. (E.)
All griefs with bread are less. (G. H.)
Be not a baker if your head be of butter. (G. H.)
Butter is gold in the morning, silver at noon, lead at night. (E.)
Butter is mad twice a year (in the extremes of heat and cold). (E.)
Butter would not melt in his mouth As demure as if butter would not melt in his mouth.
She looked as butter would not melt in her mouth. (H. 1646.)
Butter's once a year in the cow'shom {i.e. when the cow gives no milk). (E.)
Cheese is wholesome when it is given with a sparing hand.
Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad. (G. H.)
Eat a bit before you drink. (JR.)
Eat and drink measurely, and defy the mediciners. (R.)
Eat, and welcome ; fast, and heartily welcome. (R.)
Eat at pleasure, drink by measure. (R.)
Bread as long as there is any, wino by measure. ? (Fr.)
Eat to live, but do not live to eat. (R.) (From Cicero.)
Eat well's drink well's brother. (Sc.)
Eat what you like, but pocket none.
Eaten meat is good to pay. (R. So.)
Eating and drinking take away one's stomach. (B.)
Eggs and oaths are easily broken.
Sweet meat must have sour sauce. (Dutch.)
Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.
God never sends mouths, but he sends meat. (E.)
God sends meat; the devil sends cooks. (E.)
Good to be merry at meat. (R.)
Great barkers are not biters. (B. Sc.)
He that is angry at a feast is rude. (G.H.)
He that is fed at another's hand may stay long ere he be full. (G. H.)
Hope is the poor man's bread, (G. H.)
Hunger is the best sauce. {See Tusser.)
Hunger is good kitchen meat. (R. Sc.)
There is no sauce but that of appetite.? (Fr.)
Hunger makes raw beans taste of sugar.
Hunger is the best cook.? (Latin.)
Hunger is the best sauce in the world. ? (Span., Don Quixote.)
Hunger makes dinners ; pastime suppers. (G.H.)
Hunger will break through stone walls. ?(Shakespeare.)
Hunger eats through stone walls, ? {Dutch.)
Hunger will break through stone walls, or
anything except Suffolk cheese. (R.)
Hungry bellies have no ears.
Hungry dogs will eat dirty puddings. (R.)
To hunger there is no had bread. ? {Fr.)
It is time to set in, when the oven comes to the dough. (E. )
Make good cheese if you make little.
Meat and cloth make the man. (B, Sc.)
Meat and matins (or mass) hinder no man's journey. (E.)
Meat is good, but manners are better.
Much bran and little meal. (B.)
Much bruit, little fruit. (B.)
Much meat, much maladies.
He is very thoughtful who has no bread, ? (Fr.)
He is ready for anything who has no bread.? (Fr.)
Fear is a great inventor. -(Fr.)
Peel a fig for your friend, o, peach for your enemy. (E.)
Poor folks seek meat for their stomach,
rich folks, stomachs for tbeir meat.
The eye is bigger than the belly. (G. H.)
The first dish pleaseth all. (G. H.)
The taste of the kitchen is better than the smell.
The wholesomest meat is at another man's cost. (B.)
The best wine is someone else's.
When the wine goes in the wisdom goes out. ?{Dutch.)
When the beer goes in the wit goes out.? (Dan.)
Wine and wenches empty men's purses. (E.)
Wine makes all sorts of creatures at table. (G. H.)
Wine neither keeps secrets nor fulfils promises.
Wine that cost nothing is digested before
it be drunk. (G. H.)
Wine washes off the daub.
You cannot know wine by the barrel. (G. H.)
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The East | | Date: Centuries-old | Notes: Eastern Proverb or Folk Saying on Eating and Drinking
o "If everyone tells you you are drunk, go to bed."
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The East | | Date: Centuries-old | Notes: Eastern Proverb or Folk Saying on Eating and Drinking
o "When wine comes to an end, so does conversation."
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