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

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. 

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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

Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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

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

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.

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

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