“You have to eat before you drink! If you remember nothing else I've said tonight, remember to eat before you drink!”

“Remember that any meal can be your last. You chose to travel with us, so tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die.”

Robert Jordan The Dragon Reborn

“But dinner is dinner, a meal at which not so much to eat — it becomes difficult to eat much at it as you grow older — as to drink, to talk, to flirt, to discuss, to rejoice "at the closing of the day". I do not think anything serious should be done after it, as nothing should before breakfast.”

George Saintsbury (1845–1933) British literary critic

“I take so little interest in my daily life, that I hardly remember to eat and drink.”

Emily Brontë book Wuthering Heights

“They say you are what you eat, but I don't remember eating a jaded, anxious human being.”

Коул Спроус (1992) American actor

“It must be inconvenient to be made of flesh," said the Scarecrow thoughtfully, "for you must sleep, and eat and drink. However, you have brains, and it is worth a lot of bother to be able to think properly.”

L. Frank Baum book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

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

Plutarch (46–127) ancient Greek historian and philosopher

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

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

“You can be miserable before you have a cookie and you can be miserable after you eat a cookie but you can't be miserable while you are eating a cookie.”

Ina Garten (1948) American author and television presenter

“Every time you drink a glass of milk or eat a piece of cheese, you harm a mother. Please go vegan.”

Gary L. Francione (1954) American legal scholar