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

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

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

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

Most vegetarians I ever saw looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.

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.

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

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

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

One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.

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

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

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