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

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

The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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