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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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