No lyric poems live long or please many people which are written by drinkers of water.
—Horace, 20 BCQuotes
A great step toward independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 60Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men’s minds are also injured by them.
—Mencius, 300 BCOne cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
—Virginia Woolf, 1929One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.
—Julia Child, 2001Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
—Socrates, c. 430 BCCooking 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, 2003We 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 BCWhen the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
—St. Jerome, 395It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard for their own interest.
—Adam Smith, 1776Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.
—Voltaire, 1770The belly is the reason why man does not mistake himself for a god.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1886Most vegetarians I ever saw looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.
—Finley Peter Dunne, 1900