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

For, say they, when cruising in an empty ship, if you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.

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.

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

Cooking is the most massive rush. It’s like having the most amazing hard-on, with Viagra sprinkled on top of it, and it’s still there twelve hours later.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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.

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

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

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

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