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

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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

A great step toward independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.

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

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

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

Cooking is the most massive rush. It’s like having the most amazing hard-on, with Viagra sprinkled on top of it, and it’s still there twelve hours later.

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

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

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. 

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

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