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

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

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

Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts. 

He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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