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What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

—Lucretius, 50 BC

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615

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

—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896

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

—Aldous Huxley, 1929

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

—St. Jerome, 395

He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.

—Molière, 1666

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

Thank 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, 1855

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

—Julia Child, 2001

Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.

—George Herbert, 1651

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

—Socrates, c. 430 BC

‘Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860

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

—Henry Ward Beecher, 1862