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. 

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

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

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

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.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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

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

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

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