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. 

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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

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

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.

Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

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.

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.