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

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

The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.

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

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. 

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.

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

Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.

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

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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