Fantasy world

Health & Food

* After dinner rest a while, after supper walk a mile.
* An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
* A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
* An onion a day keeps everyone away.
* Another pot ! Try the teapot.
* As fit as a fiddle.
* As hard as nails.
* As sick as a dog.
* As you go through life, make this your goal, watch the doughnut and not the hole.
* Beauty is but skin deep.
* Better late thrive than never do well.
* Better to be poor and healthy rather than rich and sick.
* Better to wear out than rust out.
* Bread never falls but on its buttered side.
* Cleanliness is next to Godliness.
* Content is health to the sick and riches to the poor.
* Don't bite the hand that feeds you.
* Drink like a fish, water only.
* Early to bed, early to rise, makes you healthy, wealthy & wise.
* Good wine ruins the purse, and bad wine ruins the stomach.
* Greediness burst the bag.
* Grumbling makes the loaf no larger.
* Half a loaf is better than none.
* He who drinks a little too much drinks much too much.
* He who rises late must trot all day.
* His eyes are bigger than his belly.
* Hunger is the best sauce.
* It is no use crying over spilt milk.
* Old friends and old wine are best.
* One man's meat is another man's poison.
* Ready money is ready medicine.
* Sound as a bell.
* The nearer the bone the sweeter the meat.
* The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
* There's many a slip, twixt cup and the lip.
* To add insult to injury.
* To look as if butter will not melt in his mouth.
* Too many cooks spoil the broth.
* What can't be cured must be endured.
* What you eat today walks and talks tomorrow.
* You are what you eat.
* You can't have your cake and eat it too. See note
* You can eat an elephant if you do it one mouthful at a time.
* You can't unscramble a scrambled egg.
* Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness.

NOTE. One proverb that is always quoted incorrectly is "You can't eat your cake and have it too". It is often quoted as...."You can't have your cake and eat it too" but you can "have your cake and (then) eat it" however, you cannot "eat your cake and (still have it)".