Supple knees feed arrogance. [ Proverb ]
It needs the overflow of heart
To give the lips full speech.
Think truly, and thy thoughts
Shall the world's famine feed; [ Horatius Bonar ]
Feed a cold and starve a fever. [ Proverb ]
Feed a pig and you will have a hog. [ Proverb ]
Old praise dies unless you feed it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A bit and a knock, as men feed apes. [ Proverb ]
Who live on fancy, and can feed on air. [ Gay ]
But faithfulness can feed on suffering.
And knows no disappointment. [ George Eliot ]
He that doth the ravens feed.
Yea, providently caters for the sparrow. [ William Shakespeare ]
What is man,
If his chief good, and market of his time,
Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no man. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]
One wood is enough to feed many elephants. [ Proverb ]
To feed were best at home;
From thence the sauce to meat is ceremony;
Meeting were bare without it. [ William Shakespeare ]
She never told her love,
But let concealment, like a worm in the bud,
Feed on her damask cheek. [ William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act II. Sc. 4 ]
But the rose leaves herself upon the brier
For winds to kiss and grateful bees to feed. [ Keats ]
O, he's as tedious
As is a tired horse, a railing wife;
Worse than a smoky house; I had rather live
With cheese and garlic in a windmill, far,
Than feed on cates, and have him talk to me,
In any summer-house in Christendom. [ William Shakespeare ]
In solitude the passions feed upon the heart. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
Though the chameleon Love can feed on the air,
I am one that am nourished by my victuals. [ William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act II. Sc. 1 ]
Brutus and Caesar: what should be in Caesar?
Why should that name be sounded more than yours?
Write them together, yours is as fair a name;
Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well;
Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with them,
Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar.
Now in the names of all the gods at once,
Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed,
That he is grown so great? [ William Shakespeare ]
It costs more to satisfy a vice than to feed a family. [ Balzac ]
Unsound minds, like unsound bodies, if you feed, you poison. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
He remembers his ancestors, but forgets to feed his children. [ Proverb ]
Friendship and importunate begging feed not at the same dish. [ Proverb ]
Charity and pride have different aims, yet both feed the poor. [ Proverb ]
At first babes feed on the mother's bosom, but always on her heart. [ H. W. Beecher ]
Animals feed, man eats; the man of intellect alone knows how to eat. [ Brillat-Savarin ]
Animals feed, men eat; but only men of intelligence know how to eat. [ Brillat-Savarin ]
The destiny of nations depends upon the manner in which they feed themselves. [ Brillat-Savarin ]
Meddlers are the devil's body-lice, they fetch blood from those that feed them. [ Proverb ]
The chameleon, who is said to feed upon nothing but air, has of all animals the nimblest tongue. [ Swift ]
The mind does not know what diet it can feed on until it has been brought to the starvation point. [ Holmes ]
To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
Eloquence is like flame: it requires matter to feed on, motion to excite it, and it brightens as it burns. [ Tac ]
It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, motion to excite it, and it brightens as it burns. [ Tacitus ]
Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littlenesses, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies. [ Balzac ]
If thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. [ Bible ]
Neglect will banish love, kill a lie, and silence slander; yet it will feed a malady, nourish hatred, and fill a garden with weeds. [ E. P. Day ]
Worldly wealth is the devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches, recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase. [ Burton ]
If we were to live here always, with no other care than how to feed, clothe, and house ourselves, life would be a very sorry business. It is immeasurably heightened by the solemnity of death. [ Alexander Smith ]
Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase; as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun. [ Burton ]
Love may exist without jealousy, although this is rare: but jealousy may exist without love, and this is common; for jealousy can feed on that which is bitter no less than on that which is sweet, and is sustained by pride as often as by affection. [ Colton ]
The birds of the air die to sustain thee; the beasts of the field die to nourish thee; the fishes of the sea die to feed thee. Our stomachs are their common sepulchre. Good God! with how many deaths are our poor lives patched up! how full of death is the life of momentary man! [ Quarles ]