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.

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. 

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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

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