A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

My dinners have never interfered with my business. They have been my recreation. . . A public banquet, if eaten with thought and care, is no more of a strain than a dinner at home.

Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

After all is said and done, more is said than done.