Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.
—Voltaire, 1770Quotes
Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1862Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.
—George Herbert, 1651He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
—Molière, 1666When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
—St. Jerome, 395I 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, 1751To safeguard one’s health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1678What is food to one is to others bitter poison.
—Lucretius, 50 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, 1855A woman should never be seen eating or drinking unless it be lobster salad and champagne, the only truly feminine and becoming viands.
—Lord Byron, 1812One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.
—Julia Child, 2001Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
—Aldous Huxley, 1929No lyric poems live long or please many people which are written by drinkers of water.
—Horace, 20 BC