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

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

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

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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

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. 

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

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.

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

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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

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

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