‘Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

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. 

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

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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