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

—Voltaire, 1770

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

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860

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

—Luis Buñuel, 1983

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

—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1886

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

—Seneca the Younger, c. 60

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1943

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

—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896

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 proof of the pudding is in the eating.

—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

—Lucretius, 50 BC

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

—Virginia Woolf, 1929