The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

To safeguard one’s health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.