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

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

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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

Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men’s minds are also injured by them.

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

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

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

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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.

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.