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.

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

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

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

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

Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts. 

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

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

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

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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

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