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

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

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

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.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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

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

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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

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.

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

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