It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.

For its merit I will knight it, and then it will be Sir-Loin.

Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was...

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.

It is the mark of a mean, vulgar and ignoble spirit to dwell on the thought of food before meal times or worse to dwell on it afterwards, to discuss it and wallow in the...

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

We know that ever woman wants to be thin. Our images of womanhood are almost synonymous with thinness.

He that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.

Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and the reason they don’t get fat is that they maintain a profligate level...