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. 

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

I cannot but bless the memory of Julius Caesar, for the great esteem he expressed for fat men and his aversion to lean ones.

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

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

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

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

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

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

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

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