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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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

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.