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. 

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

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

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

A great step toward independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.

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

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.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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

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

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

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard for their own interest.