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 BCQuotes
Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.
—Voltaire, 1770Most vegetarians I ever saw looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.
—Finley Peter Dunne, 1900Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1862A woman should never be seen eating or drinking unless it be lobster salad and champagne, the only truly feminine and becoming viands.
—Lord Byron, 1812When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
—St. Jerome, 395Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
—Aldous Huxley, 1929I 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, 1751No lyric poems live long or please many people which are written by drinkers of water.
—Horace, 20 BCHe makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
—Molière, 1666The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
—Virginia Woolf, 1929