The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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

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

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

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

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

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

’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. 

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.

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

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

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