Envy feeds only on the living. [ Ovid ]
The mind grows by what it feeds on. [ J. G. Holland ]
It is ever so! affection feeds
Sometimes on flowers, how oft on weeds! [ J. F. Wiffen ]
He feeds his soul on the unreal picture. [ Virgil ]
Lost Echo sits amid the voiceless mountains,
And feeds her grief. [ Shelley ]
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 ]
A pensive soul feeds upon nothing but bitters. [ Proverb ]
And where two raging fires meet together
They do consume the thing that feeds their fury. [ William Shakespeare ]
The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on. [ J. G. Holland ]
Trust not the treason of those smiling looks.
Until ye have their guileful trains well tried;
For they are like but unto golden hooks.
That from the foolish fish their baits do hide:
So she with flattering smiles weak hearts doth guide
Unto her love, and tempt to their decay;
Whom, being caught, she kills with cruel pride,
And feeds at pleasure on the wretched prey. [ Spenser ]
He has but bad food that feeds upon the faults of others. [ Proverb ]
He that feeds upon charity has a cold dinner and no supper. [ Proverb ]
Men are unwiser than children; they do not know the hand that feeds them. [ Carlyle ]
Jealousy - it is a green-eyed monster, which doth mock the meat it feeds on. [ William Shakespeare ]
Honor is unstable, and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food. [ Colton ]
Revenge is barren of itself; itself is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its saiety, despair. [ Schiller ]
When the press is the echo of sages and reformers, it works well; when it is the echo of turbulent cynics, it merely feeds political excitement. [ Lamartine ]
Charity feeds the poor, so does pride; charity builds an hospital, so does pride. In this they differ: charity gives her glory to God: pride takes her glory from man. [ Quarles ]
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 ]
The vengeful thought that has root merely in the mind is but a dream of idlest sort which one clear day will dissipate; while revenge, the passion, is a disease of the heart which climbs up, up to the brain, and feeds itself on both alike. [ Lew Wallace ]