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

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

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

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. 

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

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

The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.

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

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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

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

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.