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

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

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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

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

To safeguard one’s health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.

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

‘Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.

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

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. 

Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts. 

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