You starve in a cook's shop. [ Proverb ]

Feed a cold and starve a fever. [ Proverb ]

A giant will starve with what will surfeit a dwarf. [ Proverb ]

One may surfeit with too much, as well as starve with too little. [ Proverb ]

They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing. [ William Shakespeare ]

The soul on earth is an immortal guest, compelled to starve at an unreal feast. [ Hannah More ]

The way out of our narrowness may not be so easy as the way in. The weasel that creeps into the corn-bin has to starve himself before he can leave by the same passage. [ Bartol ]

As for the ass's behavior in such nice circumstances, whether he would starve sooner than violate his neutrality to the two bundles of hay, I shall not presume to determine. [ Addison ]

Fame is a revenue payable only to our ghosts; and to deny ourselves all present satisfaction, or to expose ourselves to so much hazard for this, were as great madness as to starve ourselves, or fight desperately for food, to be laid on our tombs after our death. [ Mackenzie ]