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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

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

—St. Jerome, 395

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

—Aldous Huxley, 1929

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

—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896

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

—Socrates, c. 430 BC

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

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

—Lucretius, 50 BC

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

—Horace, 20 BC

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

—La Rochefoucauld, 1678

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

—Virginia Woolf, 1929

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

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

—Julia Child, 2001