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

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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

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

’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.

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

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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

One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.

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

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.

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