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

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

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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

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

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

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

Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts. 

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. 

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

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.

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