“Enough is as good as a feast.”
John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs
Part II, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Enough is equal to a feast.”
The Covent Garden Tragedy (1732), Act V, scene 1
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English novelist and dramatist 1707–1754Related quotes
“6082. Enough’s as good as a Feast,
To one that’s not a Beast.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
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“No fool can be silent at a feast.”
Solón (-638–-558 BC) Athenian legislator
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“A good conscience is a continual feast.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
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
Walter Reuther (1907–1970) Labor union leader
Address before the Indian Council of World Affairs, New Delhi, India, April 5, 1956, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 131
1950s, Address before the Indian Council on World Affairs (1956)
“A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.”
Friedrich Schiller William Tell
Act IV, sc. iii, as translated by Sir Thomas Martin
Wilhelm Tell (1803)
Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979) Catholic bishop and television presenter
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