To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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.

Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts. 

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

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

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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