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

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

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.

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

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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

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

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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

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

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

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

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