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

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

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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

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.

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.

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

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