No lyric poems live long or please many people which are written by drinkers of water.

To safeguard one’s health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard for their own interest.

Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.

The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.

Cooking is the most massive rush. It’s like having the most amazing hard-on, with Viagra sprinkled on top of it, and it’s still there twelve hours later.

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking unless it be lobster salad and champagne, the only truly feminine and becoming viands.

The belly is the reason why man does not mistake himself for a god.

Most vegetarians I ever saw looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.

Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.

For, say they, when cruising in an empty ship, if you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.