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

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.

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

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

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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

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. 

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

Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.

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

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

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