"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
"Eat your bread with enjoyment, and drink your wine with a merry heart!" ~~ Ecclesiastes (Kohelet) 9:7
"What nation on earth has customs as strange as ours? Our poor demand alms, as if they were collecting a debt, and our benefactors…invite paupers to their table." ~~ Jacob Mendele
"You’ve got to take the bitter with the sour. " ~~ Samuel Goldwyn
"A new friend is as new wine." ~~ Apocrypha: Ben Sira
"Show not yourself valiant in wine, for many has it undone!" ~~ Ben Sira 31:25
"Look not on the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly! In the end, it bites like a serpent and stings like an adder." ~~ Proverbs (Mishle) 23:31-32
"As when a hungry man dreams he is eating and awakes with his hunger unsated or a thirsty man dreams he is drinking and wakes faint, with his thirst unquenched. " ~~ Isaiah (Yesha”yahu) 29:8
"There can be no joy without food and drink." ~~ Talmud, Mo’ed Katan
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