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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cooking is the most massive rush. It’s like having the most amazing hard-on, with Viagra sprinkled on top of it, and it’s still there twelve hours later.

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

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

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.

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