# Eating

Eating is the ingestion of food to provide for all organisms their nutritional needs, particularly for energy and growth. Animals must eat in order to survive. For humans, eating is an activity of daily living.

## Quotes

* The poor man will praise it so hath he good cause, That all the year eats neither partridge nor quail, But sets up his rest and makes up his feast, With a crust of brown bread and a pot of good ale.
** Old English Song. From "An Antidote Against Melancholy" (1661).
* Antony, however, according to his custom, returned alone to his own cell, increased his discipline, and sighed daily as he thought of the mansions in Heaven, having his desire fixed on them, and pondering over the shortness of man's life. And he used to eat and sleep, and go about all other bodily necessities with shame when he thought of the spiritual faculties of the soul. So often, when about to eat with any other hermits, recollecting the spiritual food, he begged to be excused, and departed far off from them, deeming it a matter for shame if he should be seen eating by others.
** Athanasius of Alexandria, Life of Anthony of Egypt § 45
* This much thou hast taught me: that I should learn to take food as medicine. But during that time when I pass from the pinch of emptiness to the contentment of fullness, it is in that very moment that the snare of appetite lies baited for me.
** Augustine, Confessions, as translated by A. Outler, Book 10, Chapter 31, p. 197
* What is sufficient for health is not enough for pleasure. And it is often a matter of doubt whether it is the needful care of the body that still calls for food or whether it is the sensual snare of desire still wanting to be served. In this uncertainty my unhappy soul rejoices, and uses it to prepare an excuse as a defense. It is glad that it is not clear as to what is sufficient for the moderation of health, so that under the pretense of health it may conceal its projects for pleasure.
** Augustine, Confessions, as translated by A. Outler, Book 10, Chapter 31, p. 197
* Some men are born to feast, and not to fight; Whose sluggish minds, e'en in fair honor's field, Still on their dinner turn— Let such pot-boiling varlets stay at home, And wield a flesh-hook rather than a sword.
** Joanna Baillie, Count Basil (1798), Act I, scene 1; in A Series of Plays.
* I sing the sweets I know, the charms I feel, My morning incense, and my evening meal, The sweets of Hasty-Pudding.
** Joel Barlow, The Hasty Pudding (1793), Canto I.
* Man is a carnivorous production, And must have meals, at least one meal a day; He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction, But, like the shark and tiger, must have prey; Although his anatomical construction Bears vegetables, in a grumbling way, Your laboring people think beyond all question, Beef, veal, and mutton better for digestion.
** Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto II, Stanza 67.
* That famish'd people must be slowly nurst, And fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst.
** Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto II, Stanza 158.
* All human history attests That happiness for man,—the hungry sinner!— Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner.
** Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto XIII, Stanza 99.
* Todos los duelos con pan son buenos (or son menos).
** All sorrows are good (or are less) with bread.
** Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (1605-15), Chapter II. 13.
* Tripas llevan corazon, que no corazon tripas.
** The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach.
** Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (1605-15), Chapter II. 47.
* The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
** Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (1605-15), Chapter XXIV.
* A friendly swarry, consisting of a boiled leg of mutton with the usual trimmings.
** Charles Dickens, Pickwick Papers (1836), Chapter XXXVII.
* The true Amphitryon.
** John Dryden, Amphitryon (1690), Act IV, scene 1.
* A cheerful look makes a dish a feast.
** George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum (1651).
* Gluttony kills more than the sword.
** George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum (1651).
* Blest be those feasts, with simple plenty crowned, Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale.
** Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller (1764), line 17.
* Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing.
** Maxine Hong Kingston The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (1976)
* Some say eat, or be eaten.
** Elton John, "Circle of Life" (1994), The Lion King, Disney
* A Padmini is used to eating very little, Chitarini consumes twice that quantity, Hastini three times and Sankhini eats an enormous amount of food.
** Labdhodaya in his Padmini Charitra Choupai. quoted from B.K. Karkra, Rani Padmini, The Heroine of Chittor. (2009) Rupa.
* Your supper is like the Hidalgo's dinner; very little meat, and a great deal of tablecloth.
** Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Spanish Student (1843), Act I, scene 4.
* O hour, of all hours, the most bless'd upon earth, The blessèd hour of our dinners!
** Owen Meredith (Lord Lytton), Lucile (1860), Part I, Canto II, Stanza 23.
* We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience, and live without heart; We may live without friends; we may live without books; But civilized man cannot live without cooks. He may live without books,—what is knowledge but grieving? He may live without hope,—what is hope but deceiving? He may live without love,—what is passion but pining? But where is the man that can live without dining?
** Owen Meredith (Lord Lytton), Lucile (1860), Part I, Canto II, Stanza 24.
* They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet Quaff immortality and joy.
** John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book V, line 637.
* Le véritable Amphitryon Est l'Amphitryon où l'on dine.
** The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
** Molière, Amphitryon (1690), III. 5.
* As the child's dominance over food increases, the food controls his activities more and more from within. Once the foods taken within the digestive tract, it stimulates a tremendous number of nerve channels within the body and brain. These nerve excitations result in shifting the blood supply from the outside of the body to the stomach and the inside organs. Of course, all this is a provision of nature for the adequate disposition of the food.
** Walter B. Pitkin and William M. Marston,“The Art of Sound Pictures” D. Appleton and Company, New York London (1930), Chapter VII FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS, p. 152.
* And solid pudding against empty praise.
** Alexander Pope, The Dunciad (1728 to 1743), Book I, line 54.
* One solid dish his week-day meal affords, An added pudding solemniz'd the Lord's.
** Alexander Pope, Moral Essays (1731-35), Epistle III, line 447.
* "Live like yourself," was soon my lady's word, And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board.
** Alexander Pope, Moral Essays (1731-35), Epistle III, line 461.
* The Gods have not ordained hunger to be our death: even to the well-fed man comes death in varied shape, The riches of the liberal never waste away, while he who will not give finds none to comfort him, The man with food in store who, when the needy comes in miserable case begging for bread to eat, Hardens his heart against him, when of old finds not one to comfort him. Bounteous is he who gives unto the beggar who comes to him in want of food, and the feeble, Success attends him in the shout of battle. He makes a friend of him in future troubles, No friend is he who to his friend and comrade who comes imploring food, will offer nothing. Let the rich satisfy the poor implorer, and bend his eye upon a longer pathway, Riches come now to one, now to another, and like the wheels of cars are ever rolling, The foolish man wins food with fruitless labour: that food – I speak the truth – shall be his ruin, He feeds no trusty friend, no man to love him. All guilt is he who eats with no partaker.
** Rigveda, Mandala 10, Hymn 117, Ralph T. H. Griffith (Translator)
* He who nourishes neither God nor man, he who eats alone, gathers sin.
** Rig-Veda, m. 10, hymn CXVII
* But, first Or last, your fine Egyptian cookery Shall have the fame. I have heard that Julius Cæsar Grew fat with feasting there.
** William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (1600s), Act II, scene 6, line 63.
* Sit down and feed, and welcome to our table.
** William Shakespeare, As You Like It (c.1599-1600), Act II, scene 7, line 106.
* If you do, expect spoon-meat; or bespeak a long spoon.
** William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, Act IV, scene 3, line 61.
* Unquiet meals make ill digestions.
** William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, Act V, scene 1, line 75.
* He hath eaten me out of house and home.
** William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part II (c. 1597-99), Act II, scene 1, line 81.
* He that keeps nor crust nor crum, Weary of all, shall want some.
** William Shakespeare, King Lear (1608), Act I, scene 4, line 216.
* But mice, and rats, and such small deer, Have been Tom's food for seven long year.
** William Shakespeare, King Lear (1608), Act III, scene 4.
* Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but bankrupt quite the wits.
** William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost (c. 1595-6), Act I, scene 1, line 26.
* They are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.
** William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (late 1590s), Act I, scene 2, line 5.
* A surfeit of the sweetest things The deepest loathing to the stomach brings.
** William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream (c. 1595-96), Act II, scene 2, line 137.
* I wished your venison better; it was ill kill'd.
** William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor (c. 1597; published 1602), Act I, scene 1, line 83.
* Come, we have a hot venison pasty to dinner.
** William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor (c. 1597; published 1602), Act I, scene 1, line 202.
* I will make an end of my dinner; there's pippins and cheese to come.
** William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor (c. 1597; published 1602), Act I, scene 2, line 12.
* Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.
** William Shakespeare, Richard II (c. 1595), Act I, scene 3, line 237.
* I fear it is too choleric a meat. How say you to a fat tripe finely broil'd?
** William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew (c. 1593-94), Act IV, scene 3, line 19.
* What say you to a piece of beef and mustard?
** William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew (c. 1593-94), Act IV, scene 3, line 23.
* My cake is dough: but I'll in among the rest, Out of hope of all, but my share of the feast.
** William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew (c. 1593-94), Act V, scene 1, line 143.
* I charge thee, invite them all; let in the tide Of knaves once more: my cook and I'll provide.
** William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens (date uncertain, published 1623), Act III, scene 4, line 118.
* Each man to his stool, with that spur as he would to the lip of his mistress; your diet shall be in all places alike. Make not a city feast of it, to let the meat cool ere we can agree upon the first place.
** William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens (date uncertain, published 1623), Act III, scene 6, line 73.
* You would eat chickens i' the shell.
** William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida (c. 1602), Act I, scene 2, line 147.
* Our feasts In every mess have folly, and the feeders Digest with it a custom, I should blush To see you so attir'd.
** William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale (c. 1610-11), Act IV, scene 4, line 10.
* Lord, Madame, I have fed like a farmer; I shall grow as fat as a porpoise.
** Jonathan Swift, Polite Conversation (c. 1738), Dialogue II.
* They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.
** Jonathan Swift, Polite Conversation (c. 1738), Dialogue II.
* What you have eaten, what you have eaten -- it was not bread that you have eaten, it was your flesh that you have eaten! What you have drunk, what you have drunk -- it was not beer that you drank, it was your blood that you drank!
** Inanna's singer to the king Gudam who with his army ate the food reserves stored in Uruk. Tale of Gudam, text online at The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature.

### Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

    Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 210-15.
* When the Sultan Shah-Zaman Goes to the city Ispahan, Even before he gets so far As the place where the clustered palm-trees are, At the last of the thirty palace-gates, The pet of the harem, Rose-in-Bloom, Orders a feast in his favorite room— Glittering square of colored ice, Sweetened with syrup, tinctured with spice, Creams, and cordials, and sugared dates, Syrian apples, Othmanee quinces, Limes and citrons and apricots, And wines that are known to Eastern princes.
** Thomas Bailey Aldrich, When the Sultan Goes to Ispahan.
* Acorns were good till bread was found.
** Francis Bacon, Colours of Good and Evil, 6. Quote from Juvenal, Satires (early 2nd century), XIV, 181.
* 'Tis not her coldness, father, That chills my labouring breast; It's that confounded cucumber I've ate and can't digest.
** R. H. Barham, The Confession.
* Ratons and myse and soche smale dere That was his mete that vii. yere.
** Sir Bevis of Hamptoun.
* Un dîner réchauffé ne valut jamais rien.
** A warmed-up dinner was never worth much.
** Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, Lutrin, I. 104.
* First come, first served.
** Henry Brinklow, Complaint of Roderyck Mors. Also in Bartholomew's Fair, Act III. 5. (1614).
* Better halfe a loafe than no bread.
** Willaim Camden, Remaines, Proverbs, p. 293.
* A loaf of bread, the Walrus said, Is what we chiefly need: Pepper and vinegar besides Are very good indeed— Now if you're ready, Oysters, dear, We can begin to feed!
** Lewis Carroll, The Walrus and the Carpenter. From Alice Through The Looking-Glass.
* Nemini fidas, nisi cum quo prius multos modios salis absumpseris.
** Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.
** Cicero, De Amic, 19, 67. (Quoted).
* Esse oportet ut vivas, non vivere ut edas.
** Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
** Cicero, Rhetoricorum Ad C. Herennium, IV. 7.
* For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.
** Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan.
* Oh, dainty and delicious! Food for the gods! Ambrosia for Apicius! Worthy to thrill the soul of sea-born Venus, Or titillate the palate of Silenus!
** W. A. Croffut, Clam Soup.
* When we sat by the fleshpots.
** Exodus, XVI. 3.
* When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred, He quoth: "A large cold bottle, and a small hot bird!"
** Eugene Field, The Bottle and the Bird.
* When mighty roast beef was the Englishman's food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood— Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England, And Old England's roast beef.
** Henry Fielding, "The Roast Beef of Old England", in Grub Street Opera, Act III, scene 2. Claimed for R. Leveridge.
* Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.
** Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard (1733).
* What will not luxury taste? Earth, sea, and air, Are daily ransack'd for the bill of fare. Blood stuffed in skins is British Christians' food, And France robs marshes of the croaking brood.
** John Gay, Trivia, Book III, line 199.
* "Here, dearest Eve," he exclaims, "here is food." "Well," answered she, with the germ of a housewife stirring within her, "we have been so busy to-day that a picked-up dinner must serve."
** Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mosses from an Old Manse, The New Adam and Eve.
* Je veux que le dimanche chaque paysan ait sa poule au pot.
** I want every peasant to have a chicken in his pot on Sundays.
** Henry IV of France.
* Such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
** Hebrews. V. 12.
* Strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age.
** Hebrews. V. 14.
* He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.
** Matthew Henry, Commentaries.
* Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore is called the staff of Life.
** Matthew Henry, Commentaries, Psalm CIV, 15.
* He pares his apple that will cleanly feed.
** George Herbert, Church Porch, Stanza 2.
* 'Tis not the food, but the content, That makes the table's merriment.
** Robert Herrick, Content not Cates.
* Out did the meate, out did the frolick wine.
** Robert Herrick, Ode for Ben Jonson.
* God never sendeth mouth but he sendeth meat.
** John Heywood, Proverbs, Part I, Chapter IV.
* Born but to banquet, and to drain the bowl.
** Homer, The Odyssey, Book X, line 622. Pope's translation.
* "Good well-dress'd turtle beats them hollow,— It almost makes me wish, I vow, To have two stomachs, like a cow!" And lo! as with the cud, an inward thrill Upheaved his waistcoat and disturb'd his frill, His mouth was oozing, and he work'd his jaw— "I almost think that I could eat one raw."
** Thomas Hood, The Turtles.
* Millia frumenti tua triverit area centum, Non tuus hinc capiet venter plus ac meus.
** Though your threshing-floor grind a hundred thousand bushels of corn, not for that reason will your stomach hold more than mine.
** Horace, Satires, I. 1. 45.
* Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit.
** A stomach that is seldom empty despises common food.
** Horace, Satires, II. 2. 38.
* The consummate pleasure (in eating) is not in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce by sweating?
** Horace, Satires, II. 2.
* Free livers on a small scale; who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea.
** Washington Irving, The Stout Gentleman.
* The stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water.
** Isaiah, III. 1.
* Let us eat and drink; for to-morrow we shall die.
** Isaiah, XXII. 13.
* A feast of fat things.
** Isaiah, XXV. 6.
* Think of the man who first tried German sausage.
** Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat, Chapter XIV.
* Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.
** John, VI. 12.
* For I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.
** Samuel Johnson, Boswell's Life of Johnson, Volume III, Chapter 9.
* For a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
** Samuel Johnson, Piozzi's Anecdotes of Johnson.
* Digestive cheese, and fruit there sure will be.
** Ben Jonson, Epigram CI.
* Yet shall you have to rectify your palate, An olive, capers, or some better salad Ushering the mutton; with a short-legged hen, If we can get her, full of eggs, and then, Limons, and wine for sauce: to these a coney Is not to be despaired of for our money; And though fowl now be scarce, yet there are clerks, The sky not falling, think we may have larks.
** Ben Jonson, Epigram CI.
* The master of art or giver of wit, Their belly.
** Ben Jonson, The Poetaster.
* She brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
** Judges. V. 25.
* In solo vivendi causa palato est.
** In their palate alone is their reason of existence.
** Juvenal, Satires (early 2nd century), II. 11.
* Bona summa putes, aliena vivere quadra.
** To eat at another's table is your ambition's height.
** Juvenal, Satires (early 2nd century), V. 2.
* And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon.
** John Keats, The Eve of St. Agnes, Stanza 30.
* An handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse.
** I Kings, XVII. 12.
* And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail.
** I Kings, XVII. 16.
* A woman asked a coachman, "Are you full inside?" Upon which Lamb put his head through the window and said: "I am quite full inside; that last piece of pudding at Mr. Gillman's did the business for me."
** Charles Lamb, Autobiographical Recollections, by Charles R. Leslie.
* He hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure—and for such a tomb might be content to die.
** Charles Lamb, Dissertation upon Roast Pig.
* If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner, And take to light claret instead of pale ale; Look down with an utter contempt upon butter, And never touch bread till its toasted—or stale.
** Henry S. Leigh, A Day for Wishing.
* I am glad that my Adonis hath a sweete tooth in his head.
** John Lyly, Euphues and his England, p. 308.
* Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.
** Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, Political Georgics.
* Philo swears that he has never dined at home, and it is so; he does not dine at all, except when invited out.
** Martial, Epigrams (c. 80-104 AD), Book V, Epistle 47.
* Mithriades, by frequently drinking poison, rendered it impossible for any poison to hurt him. You, Cinna, by always dining on next to nothing, have taken due precaution against ever perishing from hunger.
** Martial, Epigrams (c. 80-104 AD), Book V, Epistle 76.
* Annius has some two hundred tables, and servants for every table. Dishes run hither and thither, and plates fly about. Such entertainments as these keep to yourselves, ye pompous; I am ill pleased with a supper that walks.
** Martial, Epigrams (c. 80-104 AD), Book VII, Epistle 48.
* You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.
** Martial, Epigrams (c. 80-104 AD), Book IX, Epistle 19.
* As long as I have fat turtle-doves, a fig for your lettuce, my friend, and you may keep your shellfish to yourself. I have no wish to waste my appetite.
** Martial, Epigrams (c. 80-104 AD), Book XIII, Epistle 53.
* See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?
** Martial, Epigrams (c. 80-104 AD), Book XIII, Epistle 58.
* Whether woodcock or partridge, what does it signify, if the taste is the same? But the partridge is dearer, and therefore thought preferable.
** Martial, Epigrams (c. 80-104 AD), Book XIII, Epistle 76.
* However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
** Martial, Epigrams (c. 80-104 AD), Book XIII, Epistle 81.
* I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baise; but now I luxuriously thirst for noble pickle.
** Martial, Epigrams (c. 80-104 AD), Book XIII, Epistle 82.
* If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
** Martial, Epigrams (c. 80-104 AD), Book XIII, Epistle 92.
* Man shall not live by bread alone.
** Matthew, IV. 4; Deuteronomy, VIII. 3.
* Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink.
** Matthew, VI. 25.
* Tenez bonne table et soignez les femmes.
** Keep a good table and attend to the ladies.
** Napoleon I, instructions to Abbé de Pradt.
* What baron or squire Or knight of the shire Lives half so well as a holy friar.
** John O'Keefe, I am a Friar of Orders Gray.
* Gula plures occidit quam gladius, estque fomes omnium malorum.
** Gluttony kills more than the sword, and is the kindler of all evils.
** Patricius, Bishop of Gæta.
* The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.
** Mrs. Sarah Payson ("Fanny Fern"), Willis Parton.
* Magister artis ingenique largitor Venter.
** The belly (i. e. necessity) is the teacher of art and the liberal bestower of wit.
** Persius, Prologue to Satires, 10.
* Whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame.
** Philippians, III. 19.
* Festo die si quid prodegeris, Profesto egere liceat nisi peperceris.
** Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow.
** Plautus, Aulularia.
* Their best and most wholesome feeding is upon one dish and no more and the same plaine and simple: for surely this hudling of many meats one upon another of divers tastes is pestiferous. But sundrie sauces are more dangerous than that.
** Pliny the Elder, Natural History, Book XI, Chapter LIII. Holland's translation.
* What, did you not know, then, that to-day Lucullus dines with Lucullus?
** Plutarch, Lives, Life of Lucullus, Volume III, p. 280.
* "Pray take them, Sir,—Enough's a Feast; Eat some, and pocket up the rest."
** Alexander Pope, First Book of Horace, Epistle VII, line 24.
* "An't it please your Honour," quoth the Peasant, "This same Dessert is not so pleasant: Give me again my hollow Tree, A crust of Bread, and Liberty."
** Alexander Pope, Second Book of Horace, last lines.
* Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
** Proverbs, XV. 17.
* L'abstenir pour jouir, c'est l'épicurisme de la raison.
** To abstain that we may enjoy is the epicurianism of reason.
** Jean Jacques Rousseau.
* Dis moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es.
** Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.
** Brillat Savarin, Physiologie du Gout.
* A very man—not one of nature's clods— With human failings, whether saint or sinner: Endowed perhaps with genius from the gods But apt to take his temper from his dinner.
** John Godfrey Saxe, About Husbands.
* A dinner lubricates business.
** William Scott. Quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson.
* Though we eat little flesh and drink no wine, Yet let's be merry; we'll have tea and toast; Custards for supper, and an endless host Of syllabubs and jellies and mince-pies, And other such ladylike luxuries.
** Percy Bysshe Shelley, letter to Maria Gisborne.
* Oh, herbaceous treat! 'Twould tempt the dying anchorite to eat; Back to the world he'd turn his fleeting soul, And plunge his fingers in the salad bowl; Serenely full the epicure would say? "Fate cannot harm me,—I have dined to-day."
** Sydney Smith, A Receipt for a Salad.
* Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
** Attributed to Socrates by Plutarch, Morals, How a Young Man Ought to Hear Poems.
* Bread is the staff of life.
** Jonathan Swift, Tale of a Tub.
* This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men.
** Izaak Walton, Compleat Angler, Part I, Chapter VIII.

## See also

* Cooking
* Fasting
* Food industry
* Veganism
* Gluttony
* Hunger
* Starvation
* Overeating
* Eating disorder