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

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

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

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.

’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.

‘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.

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

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

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

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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