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

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. 

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.

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

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

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

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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

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

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

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

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