To safeguard one’s health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1678Quotes
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 BC‘Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
—Molière, 1666To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1943The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.
—Luis Buñuel, 1983For, say they, when cruising in an empty ship, if you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
—Herman Melville, 1851No lyric poems live long or please many people which are written by drinkers of water.
—Horace, 20 BCA great step toward independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 60At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896’Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1595Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
—Socrates, c. 430 BCOne cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
—Virginia Woolf, 1929