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

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.

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

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

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

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.

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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

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

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

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

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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