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

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

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

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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

Cooking is the most massive rush. It’s like having the most amazing hard-on, with Viagra sprinkled on top of it, and it’s still there twelve hours later.

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.

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

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

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

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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.