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. 

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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