"If your enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat, and if he be thirsty, water to drink! " ~~ Proverbs (Mishle) 25:21
"Only the one who eats the dish knows how it tastes." ~~ Midrash Deuteronomy R.
"Like wine, the Torah pleases the heart and improves with age." ~~ Midrash, Sifre Deuteronomy 48
"Fie on those that rise early in the morning to run after strong drink and tarry late at eventide till wine inflames them!" ~~ Isaiah (Yesha’yahu) 5:11
"All dishes need salt, but not all need spices." ~~ Talmud, Beitza
"Food is not to be treated with scorn." ~~ Masekhet Soferim
"One can live without wine but not without water." ~~ Talmud Yerushalmi, Horavot
"Voices, sights and savours refresh Man’s mind." ~~ Talmud, Berakhot
"Eating is the best of prayers." ~~ Avrunin
"No one drinks from a glass without examining it first." ~~ Talmud, Ketubot
"Our ancestors in the desert remembered the fine fish they used to eat in Egypt, but the hard labor they were made to do there they forgot." ~~ Achad Ha’am
"Eat that you may live!" ~~ Rambam
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