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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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

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

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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

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