When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
—St. Jerome, 395Quotes
‘Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860No lyric poems live long or please many people which are written by drinkers of water.
—Horace, 20 BCI 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, 1751One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
—Virginia Woolf, 1929One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.
—Julia Child, 2001Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.
—Voltaire, 1770At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615’Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1595It 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, 1776To safeguard one’s health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1678Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men’s minds are also injured by them.
—Mencius, 300 BC