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

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

One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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.