What is food to one is to others bitter poison.
—Lucretius, 50 BCQuotes
Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men’s minds are also injured by them.
—Mencius, 300 BCThank 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, 1855The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.
—Luis Buñuel, 1983I 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, 1751Cooking 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, 2003To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1943Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1862The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
—Socrates, c. 430 BCIt is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard for their own interest.
—Adam Smith, 1776One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
—Virginia Woolf, 1929A 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