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

Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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

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. 

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