One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
—Virginia Woolf, 1929Quotes
Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.
—Voltaire, 1770Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
—Socrates, c. 430 BCNo lyric poems live long or please many people which are written by drinkers of water.
—Horace, 20 BCThe decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.
—Luis Buñuel, 1983At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896It 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, 1776Most vegetarians I ever saw looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.
—Finley Peter Dunne, 1900Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1862The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615We 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, 1943I 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, 1751