One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
—Virginia Woolf, 1929Quotes
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
—St. Jerome, 395No lyric poems live long or please many people which are written by drinkers of water.
—Horace, 20 BC’Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1595A woman should never be seen eating or drinking unless it be lobster salad and champagne, the only truly feminine and becoming viands.
—Lord Byron, 1812To safeguard one’s health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1678Most vegetarians I ever saw looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.
—Finley Peter Dunne, 1900Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.
—Voltaire, 1770A great step toward independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 60Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
—Aldous Huxley, 1929Bad 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, 1855Cooking is the most massive rush. It’s like having the most amazing hard-on, with Viagra sprinkled on top of it, and it’s still there twelve hours later.
—Gordon Ramsey, 2003