Most vegetarians I ever saw looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.
—Finley Peter Dunne, 1900Quotes
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
—Virginia Woolf, 1929Thank 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, 1855What is food to one is to others bitter poison.
—Lucretius, 50 BCWhy is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1862The belly is the reason why man does not mistake himself for a god.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1886Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men’s minds are also injured by them.
—Mencius, 300 BCWhen the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
—St. Jerome, 395The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
—Molière, 1666We 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 BCA woman should never be seen eating or drinking unless it be lobster salad and champagne, the only truly feminine and becoming viands.
—Lord Byron, 1812It 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