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

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

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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

The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.

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

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

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

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

A great step toward independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.

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