Epicure Quotes

There are only Epicureans, either crude or refined; Christ was the most refined. - Georg Buchner

Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection. - Bible

The summum bonum with me is now truly Epicurean, ease of body and tranquility of mind; and to these I wish to consign my remaining days. - Thomas Jefferson

The epicure puts his purse into his belly. - Proverb

Serenely full, the epicure would say, Fate cannot harm me, I have dined today. - Sydney Smith

I sort of have a love affair with my work. Many of us work far too hard and we don't put enough value in the epicurean, sensual part of life. - Kim Cattrall

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us. - Thomas Jefferson

EPICURE, n. An opponent of Epicurus, an abstemious philosopher who, holding that pleasure should be the chief aim of man, wasted no time in gratification from the senses. - Ambrose Bierce