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

—Aldous Huxley, 1929

We 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 BC

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

—Luis Buñuel, 1983

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

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

—Julia Child, 2001

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

—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1886

Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?

—Henry Ward Beecher, 1862

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

—Horace, 20 BC

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

—Molière, 1666

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

—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

—St. Jerome, 395

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

—Virginia Woolf, 1929

A great step toward independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.

—Seneca the Younger, c. 60