To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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.

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

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

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

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

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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

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.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard for their own interest.

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