Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life.

Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.

Burgundy makes you think of silly things; Bordeaux makes you talk about them, and Champagne makes you do them.

To invite people to dine with us is to make ourselves responsible for their well-being for as long as they are under our roofs.

Nothing is more pleasant than to see a pretty woman, her napkin well placed under her arms, one of her hands on the table, while the other carries to her mouth, the choice piece so elegantly carved.

The pleasures of the table belong to all times and ages, to every country and every day; they go hand in hand with all our other pleasures, outlast them, and remain to console us for their loss.

In fine, the truffle is the very diamond of gastronomy.

Dessert without cheese is like a beauty with only one eye

Animals feed themselves; men eat; but only wise men know the art of eating

The fate of a nation depends on the way that they eat.

The truffle is not a positive aphrodisiac, but it can upon occasion make women tenderer and men more apt to love.

By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.

When the eye becomes the heart, the heart becomes the eye.

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

Champions all get kicked when they're down.

What happens in Vegas, I'm telling everyone.

Make sure everything you do you really like, because you have to sing it the rest of your life.

Let us now relieve the Romans of their fears by the death of a feeble old man.

Errors accumulate in the sketch and compound in the model.

Holiness is not a privilege of a few but a need for all.

Corporeal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.