We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink, for dining alone is leading the life of a lion or wolf. 

I cannot but bless the memory of Julius Caesar, for the great esteem he expressed for fat men and his aversion to lean ones.

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking unless it be lobster salad and champagne, the only truly feminine and becoming viands.

Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?

’Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

A great step toward independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

Most vegetarians I ever saw looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.

He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.

No lyric poems live long or please many people which are written by drinkers of water.