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

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.

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.

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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

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

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

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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

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.

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