To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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