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

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink, for dining alone is leading the life of a lion or wolf. 

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

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.

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.

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.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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

A great step toward independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.

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