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Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

—Socrates, c. 430 BC

One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.

—Julia Child, 2001

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

—La Rochefoucauld, 1678

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

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860

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

—Luis Buñuel, 1983

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

—Voltaire, 1770

Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?

—Henry Ward Beecher, 1862

No lyric poems live long or please many people which are written by drinkers of water.

—Horace, 20 BC

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking unless it be lobster salad and champagne, the only truly feminine and becoming viands.

—Lord Byron, 1812

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

—St. Jerome, 395

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1943

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

—Aldous Huxley, 1929

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