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

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

Most vegetarians I ever saw looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.

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

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. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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