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

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

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.

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

Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.

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.

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

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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. 

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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