Let the progress of the meal be slow, for dinner is the last business of the day; and let the guests conduct themselves like travelers due to reach their destination together.

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.

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.

We must leave these beginnings, beings, believings- man, what are you growing?

No security guard can stop a refrigerator falling off a skyscraper.

People forget already how much utility they get out of the Internet - how much utility they get out of e-mail, how much utility they get out of even simple things like brochureware online.

Every country that aspires to become a nation needs its heroes, its eminent civic and moral leaders, and if it doesn't have them, it's our duty to invent them.

Art itself is underserved when we don't realize the power of it.

Now we are not merely to stick knowledge on to the soul: we must incorporate it into her; the soul should not be sprinkled with knowledge but steeped in it.

Somehow it always comes back to coal at school.

If we win, I'm happy. The rest of it is just stuff.