"If food, which is ephemeral, requires a blessing before and after you eat it, how much more so the Torah, which is everlasting! " ~~ Talmud, Berakkhot
"Give strong drink to the lost and wine to those in dire distress!" ~~ Proverbs (Mishle) 31:6
"To break the barrel and keep its wine. [You cannot eat your cake and have it.]" ~~ Talmud, Bava Batra
"As wine enlivens the heart, so do the words of the Torah." ~~ Song of Songs R.
"When young I ate so that I could write; in old age I write so that I may eat." ~~ M. A. Ginsburg
"Wine cheers the heart of a man." ~~ Proverbs (Mishle) 104:15
"As life’s pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs. Now that’s better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced. " ~~ Alan King
"Prepare tasty dishes to each according to his taste; think not that what is sweet to your palate is sweet to your neighbor’s!" ~~ Mishle Assaf
"In the sweat of your brow you shall eat your bread. " ~~ Genesis (Bereshit) 3:19
"Much wine is a trap to the fool, it weakens you and provokes injurious bickering." ~~ Ben Sira 31:30
"Oil and perfume gladden the heart." ~~ Proverbs (Mishle) 27:9
"Eating without drinking is like an undressed wound." ~~ Samuel Joseph Agnon
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