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

’Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.