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To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1943

Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.

—George Herbert, 1651

For, 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, 1851

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

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

—Molière, 1666

Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts. 

—Aldous Huxley, 1929

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

—Julia Child, 2001

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

—Voltaire, 1770

The belly is the reason why man does not mistake himself for a god.

—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1886

‘Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860

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

—Finley Peter Dunne, 1900

Thank 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, 1855

’Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

—William Shakespeare, c. 1595