War is death's feast. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Enough's as good as a feast
To one that's not a beast. [ Proverb ]
Enough is as good as a feast. [ Proverb ]
Nd feast like a miser's feast. [ Proverb ]
Feast today makes fast tomorrow. [ Plautus ]
Feast, and your halls are crowded;
Fast, and the world goes by, [ Ella Wheeler Wilcox ]
Where content is there is a feast. [ Proverb ]
He that is angry at a feast is rude. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Is there no mean, but fast or feast? [ Proverb ]
A cheerful look makes a dish a feast. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The cat invites the mouse to a feast. [ Proverb ]
To lordlings proud I tune my lay,
Who feast in bower or hall;
Though dukes they be, to dukes I say,
That pride will have a fall. [ Gay ]
A feast is not made of mushrooms only. [ Proverb ]
Too much is a vanity; enough is a feast. [ Quarles ]
The feast of reason and the flow of soul. [ Pope ]
He that takes a pet at a feast loses it all. [ Proverb ]
All things that we ordained festival,
Turn from their office to black funeral;
Our instruments, to melancholy bells;
Our wedding cheer, to sad burial feast;
Our solemn hymns, to sullen dirges change:
Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse,
And all things change them to the contrary. [ William Shakespeare ]
The feast of vultures, and the waste of life. [ Byron ]
It is not clean linen only, that makes the feast. [ Proverb ]
Little difference between a feast and a bellyful. [ Proverb ]
Some men are born to feast, and not to fight;
Whose sluggish minds, e'en in fair honor's field.
Still on their dinner turn -
Let such pot-boiling varlets stay at home,
And wield a flesh-hook rather than a sword. [ Joanna Baillie ]
Careless shepherds make many a feast for the wolf. [ Proverb ]
Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast. [ William Shakespeare ]
Twas a public feast and public day -
Quite full, right dull, guests hot, and dishes cold,
Great plenty, much formality, small cheer.
And everybody out of their own sphere. [ Byron ]
Better fare hard with good men, than feast it with bad. [ Proverb ]
They never saw great dainties that think a haggis a feast. [ Proverb ]
Who rises from a feast with that keen appetite that he sits down? [ William Shakespeare ]
They have been at a great feast of language, and stolen the scraps.
They have lived long in the alms-basket of words! [ William Shakespeare ]
People come to look; their greatest pleasure is to feast their eyes. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps. [ Shakespeare ]
Better come at the latter end of a feast, than the beginning of a fray. [ Proverb ]
Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner. [ Colton ]
Cheerful looks make every dish a feast, and it is that which crowns a welcome. [ Massinger ]
The soul on earth is an immortal guest, compelled to starve at an unreal feast. [ Hannah More ]
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, chief nourisher in life's feast. [ William Shakespeare ]
The bitter word which closed all earthly friendships, and finished every feast of love, - farewell. [ Pollok ]
Poor in abundance, famished at a feast, man's grief is but his grandeur in disguise, and discontent is immortality. [ Young ]
Who lets his wife go to every feast, and his horse drink at every water, shall neither have good wife nor good horse. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Swinish gluttony never looks to heaven amidst its gorgeous feast; but with besotted, base ingratitude, cravens and blasphemes his feeder. [ Milton ]
The misfortune is that when man has found honey, he enters upon the feast with an appetite so voracious that he usually destroys his own delight by excess and satiety. [ Knox ]
What a desolate place would be a world without a flower! It would be a face without a smile, a feast without a welcome. Are not flowers the stars of the earth, and are not our stars the flowers of heaven? [ Mrs. Balfour ]
A true critic, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon what the guests fling away, and consequently is apt to snarl most when there are the fewest bones. [ Swift ]
Like the tiger, that seldom desists from pursuing man after having once preyed upon human flesh, the reader who has once gratified his appetite with calumny makes ever after the most agreeable feast upon murdered reputations! [ Goldsmith ]
If ever you have looked on better days, if ever been where bells have knolled to church, if ever sat at any good man's feast, if ever from your eyelids wiped a tear and know what it is to pity and be pitied, let gentleness my strong enforcement sue. [ William Shakespeare ]
A town, before it can be plundered and deserted, must first be taken; and in this particular Venus has borrowed a law from her consort Mars. A woman that wishes to retain her suitor must keep him in the trenches; for this is a siege which the besieger never raises for want of supplies, since a feast is more fatal to love than a fast, and a surfeit than a starvation. Inanition may cause it to die a slow death, but repletion always destroys it by a sudden one. [ Colton ]
A beau is one who arranges his curled locks gracefully, who ever smells of balm, and cinnamon; who hums the songs of the Nile, and Cadiz; who throws his sleek arms into various attitudes; who idles away the whole day among the chairs of the ladies and is ever whispering into some one's ear; who reads little billets-doux from this quarter and that, and writes them in return; who avoids ruffling his dress by contact with his neighbors sleeve, who knows with whom everybody is in love; who flutters from feast to feast, who can recount exactly the pedigree of Hirpinus. What do you tell me? is this a beau, Cotilus? Then a beau, Cotilus, is a very trifling thing. [ Martial ]