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Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

—Voltaire, 1770

The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.

—Luis Buñuel, 1983

Cooking is the most massive rush. It’s like having the most amazing hard-on, with Viagra sprinkled on top of it, and it’s still there twelve hours later.

—Gordon Ramsey, 2003

Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.

—George Herbert, 1651

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

—Lucretius, 50 BC

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking unless it be lobster salad and champagne, the only truly feminine and becoming viands.

—Lord Byron, 1812

To safeguard one’s health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.

—La Rochefoucauld, 1678

Most vegetarians I ever saw looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.

—Finley Peter Dunne, 1900

Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men’s minds are also injured by them.

—Mencius, 300 BC

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink, for dining alone is leading the life of a lion or wolf. 

—Epicurus, c. 300 BC

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

—Virginia Woolf, 1929

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1943