The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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

’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.

One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.

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. 

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.

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

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

I cannot but bless the memory of Julius Caesar, for the great esteem he expressed for fat men and his aversion to lean ones.

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

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