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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

Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men’s minds are also injured by them.

—Mencius, 300 BC

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

—Julia Child, 2001

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

—Luis Buñuel, 1983

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking unless it be lobster salad and champagne, the only truly feminine and becoming viands.

—Lord Byron, 1812

To safeguard one’s health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.

—La Rochefoucauld, 1678

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

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860

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

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

—Aldous Huxley, 1929

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

—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1886

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

—George Herbert, 1651

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

—Voltaire, 1770

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1943