Death induces the sensual person to say: Let us eat and…

“A sensual person’s motto: Never complain and never explain. Sensuality is not supposed to be taught, it’s supposed to be caught.”

— Lebo Grand

What does this patch-sewing mean you ask? Eating and drinking. The heavy cloak of the body is always getting torn. You patch it with…

— Rumi

People ask me: "Why do you write about food, and eating, and drinking? Why don't you write about the struggle for power and security,…

— M. F. K. Fisher

Jesus has many lovers of His kingdom of heaven, but he has few bearers of His Cross. Many desire His consolation, but few desire…

— Thomas a Kempis

A travel book is a book that puts you in the shoes of the traveler, and it's usually a book about having a very…

— Paul Theroux

The activities of drawing, eating and drinking, all involve assimilations by the self of desirable elements from the world, a transfer of goodness from…

— Alain de Botton

In matters of great concern, and which must be done, there is no surer argument of a weak mind than irresolution; to be undetermined…

— John Tillotson

Epicureanism did inspire libertine culture in isolated sects, but Epicurus himself rejected an ethics of sensory indulgence, and he would have disowned latter-day 'Epicureanism'…

— Catherine Wilson

Wine lovers know that putting some effort into understanding and appreciating wine pays big dividends. Skillful tasting unlocks wine's treasures. It adds an extra…

— Marvin Shanken

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

— Socrates

They're [sportsmen] willing to give up a lot of other things that perhaps we all enjoy doing: eating and drinking and playing or whatever.…

— Jill Douglas

Mortifying the deeds of the body cannot be understood of the religious deeds of the body, for they are to be cherished, nor of…

— Christopher Love

It seems that some consideration should be given to the cause of our mounting physical disabilities, but instead of going to the root of…

— Lester Roloff

For both excessive and insufficient exercise destroy one's strength, and both eating and drinking too much or too little destroy health, whereas the right…

— Aristotle

Set aside all involvements and let the myriad things rest. Zazen is not thinking of good, not thinking of bad. It is not conscious…

— Dogen