Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. And never, ever, nomatter whatelse you do in your whole life, never sleep with anyone whose troubles are worse than your own.

-Algren, Nelson
  In Newsweek, 2  Jul.  Algren claimed that these were his only principles, taught him by 'a nice old Negro lady'.

Some hae meat and canna eat And some wad eat that want it; But we hae meat and we can eat, And sae the Lord be thankit.

-Anonymous
c.1790  'The Selkirk Grace', sometimes attributed to Robert Burns.

And the man said,The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. And the L God said unto the woman,What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said,The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDGenesis 3:12^13.

Then I commended mirth, because a manhath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with himof hislabour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Ecclesiastes 8:15.

Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Ecclesiastes 9:7.

And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Isaiah 22:13.

And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth: Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air. And there came a voice to him, Rise,Peter; kill, and eat.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Acts of the  Apostles10:11^13.

   The Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread: And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said,Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying,This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Corinthians11:23^6.

What advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die. See Parker 638:61.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Corinthians15:32.

If any would not work, neither should he eat.

-Bible (NewTestament)
  Thessalonians 3:10.

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,Jean Anthelme
  Physiologie du gou"  t, aphorism 4 (translated by Anne Drayton,1970).

   Eat, drink, and love; the rest's not worth a fillip.

-Rochdale
Sardanapalus, act1, sc.2.

'Then you should say what you mean,'the March Hare went on. 'Ido,'Alicehastily replied; 'at leastöat least Imeanwhat I sayöthat's the same thing, you know.' 'Not the same thing a bit! 'said the Hatter.'Why, you might just as well say that ''I see what I eat'' is the same thing as ''I eat what I see!'''

-Dodgson
  Alice's  Adventures in Wonderland, ch.7, 'A Mad Tea-Party'.

Let the Stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savoryand the appetite is keen.

-Emerson, RalphWaldo
  Essays: Second Series,'Nature'.

I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.

-Farquhar, George
  The Beaux' Stratagem, act1, sc.1.

If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back as a buzzard.Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything.

-Faulkner,William Harrison
  Interview in Paris Review, Spring.

In Americawe eat, collectively, withaglumurgefor food to fill us.We are ignorant of flavor. We are as a nation taste-blind.

-Fisher, M(ary) F(rances) K(ennedy)
  The Art of Eating.

I couldn't eat, just went on drinking coffee, and sweating it out again. Liquid had no time to be digested; it came through the pores long before it reached the stomach. I lay wet through with sweat for four hoursöit was very nearly like happiness.

-Greene, (Henry) Graham
  In Mexico. The Lawless Roads (published in the US as Another Mexico).

Seg u¤ n un yanqui que debe ser todo un derrochador, es Cuba donde mejor se come siempre y se bebe. According to a gringo who must be a true spendthrift, Cuba is always the best place to eat and to drink.

-Guille¤  n, Nicola¤  s
  Sa¤  tira pol|¤  tica,'Depende' ('It Depends').

'You must sit down,'says Love,'and taste my meat,' So I did sit and eat.

-Herbert, George
'Love', collected in The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (published posthumously,1633).