The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.
—Luis Buñuel, 1983Quotes
Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.
—George Herbert, 1651For, say they, when cruising in an empty ship, if you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
—Herman Melville, 1851To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1943A great step toward independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 60One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
—Virginia Woolf, 1929The belly is the reason why man does not mistake himself for a god.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1886Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1862Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
—Aldous Huxley, 1929He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
—Molière, 1666Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
—Socrates, c. 430 BCWhen the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
—St. Jerome, 395At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896