I've seen that attributed to Napoleon My favourite Champagne quote: "My only regret is that I did not drink more Champagne." Lord Maynard Keynes, on his deathbed One more food quote: "Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour." Charles Maurice de Talleyrand OK this is the last one: "Eggs, I have found, have much in common with small boys. If they are hurried, overheated, or overbeaten in the beginning, they tend to turn on you, and no amount of future love and concern can right the wrong." Irene Chalmers, The Confident Cook