Felicity eats up circumspection. [ Proverb ]
An angler eats more than he gets. [ Proverb ]
He that eats longest lives longest. [ Proverb ]
The still sow eats up all the draff. [ Proverb ]
He eats the calf in the cow's belly. [ Proverb ]
A jade eats as much as a good horse. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
He sups ill who eats up all at dinner. [ Proverb ]
The bit that one eats, no friend makes. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
What the good wife spares the cat eats. [ Proverb ]
He loves mutton well that eats the wool. [ Proverb ]
He eats in plate, but will die in irons. [ Proverb ]
He that eats the hard shall eat the ripe. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Who eats and leaves has another meal good. [ Proverb ]
As rust eats iron, so care eats the heart. [ Abbe Ricard ]
A master of straw eats a servant of steel. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The crow bewails the sheep and then eats it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Yet is there one more cursed than they all.
That canker-worm, that monster, jealousie,
Which eats the heart and feeds upon the gall,
Turning all love's delight to misery.
Through fear of losing his felicity. [ Spenser ]
For want of thrushes the devil eats blackbirds. [ French Proverb ]
He that eats most porridge shall have most meat. [ Proverb ]
Who eats his dinner alone, must saddle his horse. [ Proverb ]
Man's heart eats all things, and is hungry still. [ Young ]
The wolf eats off the sheep that have been warned. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The chicken is the country's, but the city eats it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Who eats his cock alone must saddle his horse alone. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
She that is ashamed to eat at table, eats in private. [ Proverb ]
He that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well. [ Proverb ]
The chickens are the country's, but the city eats them. [ Proverb ]
He that eats well and drinks well should do his duty well. [ Proverb ]
The poor man turns his cake, and another comes and eats it. [ Proverb ]
All things thrive with him; he eats silk, and voids velvet. [ Proverb ]
He that eats the king's geese shall be choked with the feathers. [ Proverb ]
The choleric drinks, the melancholic eats, the phlegmatic sleeps. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The bee from her industry in the summer eats honey all the winter. [ Proverb ]
He needs a long spoon who eats out of the same dish with the devil. [ Proverb ]
Animals feed, man eats; the man of intellect alone knows how to eat. [ Brillat-Savarin ]
Like the gardener's dog, that neither eats cabbage himself nor lets any body else. [ Proverb ]
I renounce the friend who eats what is mine with me, and what is his own by himself. [ Portuguese Proverb ]
A man that keeps riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles. [ Proverb ]
He that keeps up his riches and lives poorly, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles. [ Proverb ]
He that is proud eats up himself; pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle: and whatever praises itself but in the deed devours the deed in the praise. [ William Shakespeare ]
The herb feeds upon the juice of a good soil, and drinks in the dew of heaven as eagerly, and thrives by it as effectually, as the stalled ox that tastes everything that he eats or drinks. [ South ]
Partake or Eat? Partake, meaning to take a part of in common with others, to participate, is often affectedly used as a synonym of eat. It is correct to say that two or more persons partake of dinner, as they may partake of anything else. But, for the individual who eats alone, to say he partook of refreshments is an egregious blunder. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]