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No lyric poems live long or please many people which are written by drinkers of water.

—Horace, 20 BC

Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?

—Henry Ward Beecher, 1862

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

—Lucretius, 50 BC

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

—La Rochefoucauld, 1678

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

One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.

—Julia Child, 2001

Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts. 

—Aldous Huxley, 1929

’Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

—William Shakespeare, c. 1595

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1943

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

—Virginia Woolf, 1929

‘Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860

The belly is the reason why man does not mistake himself for a god.

—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1886

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896