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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

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