"Who has two meals may accept nothing from a charity kitchen." ~~ Peah 8:7
"To eat and drink on a festival in the company of your family without providing for the poor and distressed, is not “the joy of the commandment” but the joy of your stomach. It is a disgrace." ~~ Maimonides
"Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he’s buying. " ~~ Fran Lebowitz
"Like wine, the Torah pleases the heart and improves with age." ~~ Midrash, Sifre Deuteronomy 48
"Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine. " ~~ Fran Lebowitz
"If you eat the fruit of the labor of your hands, you will be happy and prosperous." ~~ Psalms (Tehillim) 128:2
"The less you eat, the less sick you will be." ~~ Zabara
"When does a Jew sing? When he’s hungry." ~~ Mokher Sefarim Mendele
"Where there is honey, there are flies." ~~ Yiddish Proverb
"Here is food and here is drink— but, if there is no peace, there is nothing." ~~ Sifra
"There is no disputing about tastes." ~~ Abraham Shlonsky
"Sayings of the wise are like a tonic wine, pleasure to the spirit and cure to the flesh." ~~ Mishle Agur
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