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.

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

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

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

Cooking is the most massive rush. It’s like having the most amazing hard-on, with Viagra sprinkled on top of it, and it’s still there twelve hours later.

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.

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

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

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

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

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

A great step toward independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.