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

—Aldous Huxley, 1929

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

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860

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

—Socrates, c. 430 BC

A great step toward independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.

—Seneca the Younger, c. 60

He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.

—Molière, 1666

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

—Luis Buñuel, 1983

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

—Julia Child, 2001

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1943

Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.

—George Herbert, 1651

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

—Voltaire, 1770

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

—William Shakespeare, c. 1595

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

—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896