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

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.

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

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

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.

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

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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

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

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