A great step toward independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 60Quotes
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
—Socrates, c. 430 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, 1855He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
—Molière, 1666Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.
—Voltaire, 1770I 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, 1751Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men’s minds are also injured by them.
—Mencius, 300 BCThe decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.
—Luis Buñuel, 1983When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
—St. Jerome, 395To safeguard one’s health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1678’Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1595At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.
—Julia Child, 2001