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It 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, 1776

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

—Virginia Woolf, 1929

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

—Lucretius, 50 BC

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1943

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

—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896

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

—Julia Child, 2001

I 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

Most vegetarians I ever saw looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.

—Finley Peter Dunne, 1900

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

—Luis Buñuel, 1983

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

—Voltaire, 1770

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

—Molière, 1666

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

—Socrates, c. 430 BC

No lyric poems live long or please many people which are written by drinkers of water.

—Horace, 20 BC