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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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