One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

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

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

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

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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

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

For, say they, when cruising in an empty ship, if you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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.

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

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

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