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

—Virginia Woolf, 1929

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

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

—La Rochefoucauld, 1678

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

—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896

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

Thank 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, 1855

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

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615

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

—Voltaire, 1770

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

—St. Jerome, 395

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

—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1886

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

—Lucretius, 50 BC

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

—Aldous Huxley, 1929