“I like to eat crawfish and drink beer. That's despair?”
Walker Percy (1916–1990) Southern philosophical novelist
“Obeying is like eating and drinking. There's nothing like it if you've been without it too long”
— Hermann Hesse, book Steppenwolf
Steppenwolf (1927)
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“Drink! live like the Greeks! eat! gorge!. (translator unknown)”
Bibite ! pergraecamini ! Este ! effercite vos !
Mostellaria, Act I, scene 1, lines 61-62
Mostellaria (The Haunted House)
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
http://books.google.com/books?id=lFXyZLM1XxYC&pg=PT412&dq=%22Just+as+eating+against+one%E2%80%99s+will+is+injurious+to+health%22&hl=en&ei=GFRbTIjiGoL-8AbytdC4Ag&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22Just%20as%20eating%20against%20one%E2%80%99s%20will%20is%20injurious%20to%20health%22&f=false
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
“Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.”
Edmund Burke (1729–1797) Anglo-Irish statesman
“Sex is like a drink, it's bad to start brooding about it too early in the day.”
Margaret Atwood book Oryx and Crake
Source: Oryx and Crake
Ferdinand Hodler (1853–1918) Swiss artist
Quote from Hodler's letter to de:Hans Mühlestein, c. late 1914; as cited by Anya Silver in: 'Valentine Godé-Darel (1873–1915): Five Paintings by Ferdinand Hodler' https://thegeorgiareview.com/spring-2013/valentine-gode-darel-1873-1915-five-paintings-by-ferdinand-hodler/, April 2013 <br class="br">In 1908, Hodler met Valentine Godé-Darel who became his mistress. She was diagnosed with cancer in 1913 and died in January 1915; Hodler painted five oils the day after her death