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.

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.

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

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

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.

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. 

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

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

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

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

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

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.