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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

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

—Henry Ward Beecher, 1862

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

—George Herbert, 1651

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

—Finley Peter Dunne, 1900

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

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

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

—Virginia Woolf, 1929

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

—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1886

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

—Luis Buñuel, 1983

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

—William Shakespeare, c. 1595

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

—Julia Child, 2001

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

—Socrates, c. 430 BC

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

—Voltaire, 1770