A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death.
Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
It is best to rise from life as from a banquet neither thirsty nor drunken.
If you really want to diminish a candidate depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself.