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

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.

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. 

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

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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.

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

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

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

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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