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

—Aldous Huxley, 1929

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

—Henry Ward Beecher, 1862

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1943

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

—William Shakespeare, c. 1595

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

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

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

I cannot but bless the memory of Julius Caesar, for the great esteem he expressed for fat men and his aversion to lean ones.

—David Hume, 1751

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

—Luis Buñuel, 1983

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615

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

—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1886

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

—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896