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

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

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

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

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

Cooking is the most massive rush. It’s like having the most amazing hard-on, with Viagra sprinkled on top of it, and it’s still there twelve hours later.

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

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

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.

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. 

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

Most vegetarians I ever saw looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.