The belly is the reason why man does not mistake himself for a god.

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

Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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

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

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. 

Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.

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

One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

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