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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.