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

—Socrates, c. 430 BC

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

—Henry Ward Beecher, 1862

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

—Horace, 20 BC

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

—Aldous Huxley, 1929

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

—William Shakespeare, c. 1595

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

—La Rochefoucauld, 1678

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

—St. Jerome, 395

Cooking 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, 2003

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

For, say they, when cruising in an empty ship, if you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.

—Herman Melville, 1851

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615

It 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, 1776

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

—Virginia Woolf, 1929