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

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

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.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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

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

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

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

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

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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