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.

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

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

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

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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

‘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.

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

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

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

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