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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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

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