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

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

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

He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.

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

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

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

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.

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

One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.

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.