“A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating”

“If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating”

“Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive”

“A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body ”

“There is no sincerer love than the love of food”

“This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age”