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

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. 

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

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

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

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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