The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard for their own interest.

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.

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

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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.

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

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

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. 

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