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

For, say they, when cruising in an empty ship, if you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.

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. 

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

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

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 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.

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

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

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