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To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1943

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615

Most vegetarians I ever saw looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.

—Finley Peter Dunne, 1900

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

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860

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

—William Shakespeare, c. 1595

The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.

—Luis Buñuel, 1983

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

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

—Aldous Huxley, 1929

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

—Lucretius, 50 BC

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

—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896

For, 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, 1851

It 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, 1776

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