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

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

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

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.

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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

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

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. 

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

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

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.