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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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

Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.

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

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

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