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.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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

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

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

The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.

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.

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

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

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?