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

“Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we may diet.”

“Death induces the sensual person to say: Let us eat and drink, because tomorrow we shall die – but this is sensuality’s cowardly lust for life, that contemptible order of things where one lives in order to eat and drink instead of eating and drinking in order to live.”

“Drink! live like the Greeks! eat! gorge!. (translator unknown)”
Bibite ! pergraecamini ! Este ! effercite vos !

“Past is dead
Future is uncertain;
Present is all you have,
So eat, drink and live merry.”

“breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.”

“Instead of seeing that men got enough to eat the Government spent the whole Session in securing that they should have nothing to drink.”

“The Eating and Drinking Reformation is at the foundation of all the good that would be produced in society.”

“Why, what is to live? Not to eat and drink and breathe,—but to feel the life in you down all the fibres of being, passionately and joyfully.”

“Anas reported that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "Allah is pleased with the slave who eats some food and then praises Him for it, or drinks a drink and then praises Him for it."”