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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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

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

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

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