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

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I cannot but bless the memory of Julius Caesar, for the great esteem he expressed for fat men and his aversion to lean ones.

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