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

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

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

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

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

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.

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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

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

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

I cannot but bless the memory of Julius Caesar, for the great esteem he expressed for fat men and his aversion to lean ones.

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