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. 

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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