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

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

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

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

One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard for their own interest.

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

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

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

’Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

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

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