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?

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

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

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.

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

Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

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

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

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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

‘Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.