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. 

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

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

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

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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