To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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

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

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

‘Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.

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

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

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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

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. 

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

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