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. 

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

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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

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

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

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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

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

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.

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

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

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