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

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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

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. 

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

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

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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

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

He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.

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

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

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