To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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

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.

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

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

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

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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

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

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

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

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

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