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. 

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

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.