To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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

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.

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

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

Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts. 

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

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

The belly is the reason why man does not mistake himself for a god.

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

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.

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