Most vegetarians I ever saw looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.

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

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

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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

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

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

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

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

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. 

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

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

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