What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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

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

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

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

The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.

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. 

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

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

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

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

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

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