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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men’s minds are also injured by them.

To safeguard one’s health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.