The universe is nothing without the things that live in it, and everything that lives, eats.

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.

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

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.

There are greater things than want and lust, Nerissa, " he whispered. "I can't afford those things.

Silence heals.

It's a good addition. There are so many bad addictions. Better be addicted to shoes than something else

The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place.

Our men must win or die. Pompey's men have... other options.

I'm a librarian, not an oracle.

Chess is no whit inferior to the violin, and we have a large number of professional violinists

Thank God the economy is not as bad as you read in the newspaper every day.

[Non-Catholic Christians are] in a gravely deficient situation in comparison with those who, in the [Roman Catholic] church, have the fullness of the means of salvation.

It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.