Pride, anger, gluttony, and idleness are sometimes conquered, but the conversion of a malicious and envious mind is a kind of miracle. — Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont Copy Share Image
It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
O Music! how it grieves me that imprudence, intemperance, gluttony, should open their channels into thy sacred stream. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Remember, that when I speak of pleasures I always mean the elegant pleasures of a rational being, and not the brutal ones… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“Our plump predicament comes from the way we think. In America life has become a daily quest for instant gratification. Do we… — Aaron Blaylock Copy Share Image
Gluttony and satiety in food produce defiled lust, while free association with women enflames the fire of lusts ... At the time… — Nilus of Sinai Copy Share Image
O lust, thou infernal fire, whose fuel is gluttony; whose flame is pride, whose sparkles are wanton words; whose smoke is infamy;… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Some men find happiness in gluttony and in drunkenness, but no delicate viands can touch their taste with the thrill of pleasure,… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Just as animal research tells us that gluttony and sloth are side effects of a drive to accumulate body fat, it also… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
The avenues in my neighborhood are Pride, Covetousness and Lust; the cross streets are Anger, Gluttony, Envy and Sloth. I live over… — John Chancellor Copy Share Image
The seven deadly sins of the Christian Church are: greed, pride, envy, anger, gluttony, lust, and sloth. Satanism advocates indulging in each… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
“offered her to say with a demure little sigh and a smile ‘Oh please, please…all I want is a cup of tea,… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
For other people who are involved in unrepentant sin whether it's the sin of homosexual sexual expression or gluttony or pride or… — Alan Chambers Copy Share Image
Greed, envy, sloth, pride and gluttony: these are not vices anymore. No, these are marketing tools. Lust is our way of life.… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
Let's just call things what they are. When a man's love of finery clouds his moral judgment, that is vanity. When he… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
“We are brought thick desserts, and we rarely refuse them. We worship devoutly when we’re with others. Hours we sit, though we… — Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi Copy Share Image
Only someone as puffed up and demented as John Maynard Keynes, every left wing fascist's sainted mentor in this connection, could manage… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Those then who know not wisdom and virtue, and are always busy with gluttony and sensuality, go down and up again as… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Your Nafs is just like a suckling child. If you do not take the pains to wean him, he will yearn for… — Busiri Copy Share Image
The inferior creatures groan under your cruelties. You hunt them for your pleasure, and overwork them for your covetousness, and kill them… — Tom Tryon Copy Share Image
“Shukhov ate his supper without bread--a double portion and bread on top of it would be too rich. So he'd save the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Food is not evil, but gluttony is. Childbearing is not evil, but fornication is. Money is not evil, but avarice is. Glory… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Well, I find it interesting first that this all centers around the issue of homosexuality and we don't bring in any other… — Alan Chambers Copy Share Image
“The inability to understand the spiritual roots of gluttony (as the inability to sacrifice) or to appreciate a culture’s role in fostering… — Norman Wirzba Copy Share Image
Technology has grown so much that there's a whole idea of gluttony. Sometimes you get carried away because you can have a… — Justin Lin Copy Share Image
The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath,… — Dave Mustaine Copy Share Image
I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner.… — Martial Copy Share Image
Evidence of defendants' lavish lifestyles is often used to provide a motive for fraud. Jurors sometimes wonder why an executive making tens… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities and the fountain of all our diseases. As a lamp is choked by a… — Marion LeRoy Burton Copy Share Image
“Many obese people spend a significant amount of their energy on suppressing the urge to tell some of the people who are… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom. Reading - even browsing - an old book can yield sustenance denied by… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
I think that of all the diseases in the world, the disease that all humankind suffers from, the disease that is most… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
The money that fueled the explosion of gluttony at the top had to come from somewhere or, more specifically, from someone. Since… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
If we are defined by reason and morality, then reason and morality must define our choices, even when animals are concerned. When… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
“She is always turning from what has been offered her to say with a demure little sigh and a smile ‘Oh please,… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“There is an invincible fortress that greed, gluttony and all of the other self-centered forces relentlessly assail with great force. Yet this… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
There is an apocalyptic view to this that is actually kind of appealing, which is the only way to kill big government… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
