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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.