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.

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

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

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

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

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

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

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

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. 

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.

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

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.