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

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

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

Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts. 

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

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

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

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.

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. 

For, say they, when cruising in an empty ship, if you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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.

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