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

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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