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

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.

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

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

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

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

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

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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?

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