The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure.

Those from whom nature has withheld taste invented trousers.

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

I appreciate the potato only as a protection against famine, except for that, I know of nothing more eminently tasteless.

The limits of pleasure are as yet neither known nor fixed, and that we have no idea what degree of bodily bliss we are capable of attaining.

Truffle isn't exactly aphrodisiac but under certain circumstances it tends to make women more tender and men more likable

Gourmandism is an act of judgment, by which we prefer things which have a pleasant taste to those which lack this quality.