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Proverbs About Food
In wine there is truth
A sober man keeps a guard on his tongue, holding back anything he wishes to hide. Strong drink unseals his lips and he tells everything. Hence a man is more likely to speak the truth when he is drunk than when he is sober.
Do not put new wine into old bottles 141
At first sight this would seem to imply that it is false economy to use wine bottles more than once, and that the saying means the same as, for example, Penny Wise, Pound Foolish. But this is not so. The real meaning is that we should not try to bring together things that are out of keeping with each other. To play dance music at a funeral is to put new wine into old bottles.
Good wine needs no bush
High-quality goods need no advertising because people soon get to know about them.
In olden days, taverns and private houses where beer or wine could be bought by travellers had a branch or bunch of ivy hung up outside, ivy being sacred to Bacchus, the god of wine in Greek mythology. If the liquor offered for sale was of excellent quality, there was no lack of customers, so there was no need to hang out the ivy.
Bread is the staff of life
Here 'bread' refers to food in general, as in the Lord's Prayer 'Give us today our daily bread'; and 'staff' is something that serves as a stay or support. Hence food supports life, and man cannot live without it.
Don't quarrel with your bread and butter
To quarrel with your bread and butter is to give up your job without sufficient reason, which is foolish.
Half a loaf is better than no bread
We should be thankful for what we receive, even though it is not so much as we had hoped for.
Promises are like pie-crust, made to be broken
That is the trouble with promises; so often they are made and never kept.
A man apt to promise, is apt to forget. ~ Thomas Fuller
Forbidden fruit is sweetest
If we are told that we must not have a thing, we want it more than ever; and if we are told not to do a thing, we feel impelled to do it.
A tree is known by its fruit
Men are judged by what they do.
Matthew 12:33 and Luke 6:44: There is no such thing as a good tree producing worthless fruit, nor yet a worthless tree producing good fruit. For each tree is known by its own fruit: you do not gather figs from thistles, and you do not pick grapes from brambles. A good man produces good from the store of good within himself; and an evil man from evil within produces evil.
In wine there is truth
A sober man keeps a guard on his tongue, holding back anything he wishes to hide. Strong drink unseals his lips and he tells everything. Hence a man is more likely to speak the truth when he is drunk than when he is sober.
Do not put new wine into old bottles 141
At first sight this would seem to imply that it is false economy to use wine bottles more than once, and that the saying means the same as, for example, Penny Wise, Pound Foolish. But this is not so. The real meaning is that we should not try to bring together things that are out of keeping with each other. To play dance music at a funeral is to put new wine into old bottles.
Good wine needs no bush
High-quality goods need no advertising because people soon get to know about them.
In olden days, taverns and private houses where beer or wine could be bought by travellers had a branch or bunch of ivy hung up outside, ivy being sacred to Bacchus, the god of wine in Greek mythology. If the liquor offered for sale was of excellent quality, there was no lack of customers, so there was no need to hang out the ivy.
Bread is the staff of life
Here 'bread' refers to food in general, as in the Lord's Prayer 'Give us today our daily bread'; and 'staff' is something that serves as a stay or support. Hence food supports life, and man cannot live without it.
Don't quarrel with your bread and butter
To quarrel with your bread and butter is to give up your job without sufficient reason, which is foolish.
Half a loaf is better than no bread
We should be thankful for what we receive, even though it is not so much as we had hoped for.
Promises are like pie-crust, made to be broken
That is the trouble with promises; so often they are made and never kept.
A man apt to promise, is apt to forget. ~ Thomas Fuller
Forbidden fruit is sweetest
If we are told that we must not have a thing, we want it more than ever; and if we are told not to do a thing, we feel impelled to do it.
A tree is known by its fruit
Men are judged by what they do.
Matthew 12:33 and Luke 6:44: There is no such thing as a good tree producing worthless fruit, nor yet a worthless tree producing good fruit. For each tree is known by its own fruit: you do not gather figs from thistles, and you do not pick grapes from brambles. A good man produces good from the store of good within himself; and an evil man from evil within produces evil.
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