There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

There's no sauce in the world like hunger.

Under a bad cloak there is often a good drinker

Hunger is the best sauce in the world.

For if he like a madman lived; At least he like a wise one died.

Does the devil possess you? You're leaping over the hedge before you come at the stile.

He who's never loved cannot be good.