Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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

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