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.

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

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

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

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

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

No lyric poems live long or please many people which are written by drinkers of water.

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.

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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

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