One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.

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. 

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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