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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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

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

’Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

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