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.

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

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink, for dining alone is leading the life of a lion or wolf. 

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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

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

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

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

Cooking is the most massive rush. It’s like having the most amazing hard-on, with Viagra sprinkled on top of it, and it’s still there twelve hours later.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.