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.

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

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

Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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