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 BCQuotes
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men’s minds are also injured by them.
—Mencius, 300 BCOne of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.
—Julia Child, 2001What is food to one is to others bitter poison.
—Lucretius, 50 BCHe makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
—Molière, 1666Cooking is the most massive rush. It’s like having the most amazing hard-on, with Viagra sprinkled on top of it, and it’s still there twelve hours later.
—Gordon Ramsey, 2003Thank 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, 1855To safeguard one’s health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1678Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1862To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1943One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
—Virginia Woolf, 1929Most vegetarians I ever saw looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.
—Finley Peter Dunne, 1900