Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get.

Did you ever see the customers in health - food stores? They are pale, skinny people who look half - dead. In a steak house, you see robust, ruddy people. They're dying, of course, but they look terrific.

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.