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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.