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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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. 

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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