No lyric poems live long or please many people which are written by drinkers of water.
—Horace, 20 BCQuotes
Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.
—Voltaire, 1770One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.
—Julia Child, 2001At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men’s minds are also injured by them.
—Mencius, 300 BCBad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
—Socrates, c. 430 BCHe makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
—Molière, 1666The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615A great step toward independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 60The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.
—Luis Buñuel, 1983To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1943Most vegetarians I ever saw looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.
—Finley Peter Dunne, 1900The belly is the reason why man does not mistake himself for a god.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1886