’Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1595Quotes
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 BCTo 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, 1983Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
—Aldous Huxley, 1929It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard for their own interest.
—Adam Smith, 1776To safeguard one’s health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1678The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.
—Julia Child, 2001What is food to one is to others bitter poison.
—Lucretius, 50 BCThought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.
—Voltaire, 1770When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
—St. Jerome, 395Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.
—George Herbert, 1651