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

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

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

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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. 

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.

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.

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

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

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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