Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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