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Quotes About Gluttony

At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.
~ Oliver Reed
Gluttony is not a secret vice.
~ Orson Welles
She knows no difference 'twixt head and privities who devours immense oysters at midnight.
~ Juvenal
I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas - fat, drugged, and completely out of it.
~ Anthony Bourdain
Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop; the gut expanded to take in more and more.
~ John Updike
A full Belly brings forth every Evil.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Appetite, a universal wolf.
~ William Shakespeare
Devil's Food?" You can only eat so much white cake, my friend.
~ Christopher Moore
She used to diet on any kind of food she could lay her hands on.
~ Arthur Baer
There's nothing better than cake but more cake.
~ Harry S. Truman
Poor, darling fellow-he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.
~ Diana Vreeland
Mmmmmmm. donuts/beer/erotic cakes.
~ Homer Simpson
Thanksgiving is Americas national chow-down feast, the one occasion each year when gluttony becomes a patriotic duty.
~ Unknown
Let's just call things what they are. When a man's love of finery clouds his moral judgment, that is vanity. When he lets a demanding palate make his moral choices, that is gluttony. When he ascribes the divine will to his own whims, that is pride. And when he gets angry at being reminded of animal suffering that his own daily choices might help avoid, that is moral cowardice.
~ Matthew Scully
When a man's love of finery clouds his moral judgment, that is vanity. When he lets a demanding palate make his moral choices, that is gluttony. When he ascribes the divine will to his own whims, that is pride. And when he gets angry at being reminded of animal suffering that his own daily choices might help avoid, that is moral cowardice.
~ Matthew Scully
That is, after I've eaten all the juicy parts.
~ Michael Buckley
Thanksgiving is America's national chow-down feast, the one occasion each year when gluttony becomes a patriotic duty.
~ Unknown
He gorged himself on sugar and alcohol—it was the quickest way to gain weight, and he liked the feeling of inebriation.
~ Michael Finkel
But your laziness leads you astray; your greed makes you dumb; your gluttony makes enemies for you.
~ Unknown
Lust will die from a decrease in hormones. Anger will die of maturity. Gluttony will die of disease and despair. Pride and vanity will die of loneliness. Despondency will die from being bored. Greed will die of love. Envy will die of humility. Human vices are the folly of youth.
~ Unknown
avaricia, la cual, como es sabido, tiene hambre de lobo: cuanto más devora, menos se sacia.
~ Nikolai Gogol
At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.
~ Oliver Reed
Gluttony is not a secret vice.
~ Orson Welles
and say to the elders, “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he does not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.”
~ Deuteronomy 21:20