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.

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

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

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

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

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

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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.

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

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

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

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