When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
—St. Jerome, 395Quotes
Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.
—George Herbert, 1651The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.
—Luis Buñuel, 1983Most vegetarians I ever saw looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.
—Finley Peter Dunne, 1900One 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 BCThank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.
—Sydney Smith, 1855I cannot but bless the memory of Julius Caesar, for the great esteem he expressed for fat men and his aversion to lean ones.
—David Hume, 1751The belly is the reason why man does not mistake himself for a god.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1886What is food to one is to others bitter poison.
—Lucretius, 50 BCOne cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
—Virginia Woolf, 1929No lyric poems live long or please many people which are written by drinkers of water.
—Horace, 20 BC‘Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860