’Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men’s minds are also injured by them.

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

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

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

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

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

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.