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

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

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

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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

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

Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men’s minds are also injured by them.

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

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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

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. 

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking unless it be lobster salad and champagne, the only truly feminine and becoming viands.

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.