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

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.

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

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

To safeguard one’s health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.

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.

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

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. 

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

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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