“Enough is as good as a feast.”
Part II, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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“6082. Enough’s as good as a Feast,
To one that’s not a Beast.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Variant: 1370. Enough's as good as a Feast.
The Covent Garden Tragedy (1732), Act V, scene 1
“A good conscience is a continual feast.”
Section 4, member 2, subsection 3, Causes of Despair, the Devil, Melancholy, Meditation, Distrust, Weakness of Faith, Rigid Ministers, Misunderstanding Scriptures, Guilty Consciences, etc.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
“Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.”
9 November 1665 http://books.google.com/books?id=azIEAAAAQAAJ&q=%22Strange+to+see+how+a+good+dinner+and+feasting+reconciles+everybody%22&pg=PA120#v=onepage
Diary
Source: The Diary of Samuel Pepys: A Selection
Section 2, member 2, subsection 2.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
“If it’s good enough for the cosmos, it’s good enough for humankind.”
Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)
“If I'm good enough to bed, surely I'm good enough to wed.”
Source: Notorious Pleasures