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

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. 

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

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

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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