Thanksgiving is Americas national chow-down feast, the one…

Thanksgiving is America's national chow-down feast, the one occasion each year when gluttony becomes a patriotic duty.

— Michael Dresser

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

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

— Peter De Vries

Jerry Falwell says that abortion and homosexuality are sins. Oh yeah? Well, so is gluttony, Jerry. So maybe you should think about dropping 50 pounds.

— Dennis Miller

“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…

— Matthew Scully

“It may be easier to believe that we remain lean because we're virtuous and we get fat because we're not, but the evidence simply…

— Gary Taubes

“Mirrors on the ceiling, The pink champagne on ice And she said 'We are all just prisoners here, of our own device' And in…

— The Eagles

What I like about gluttony, a bishop I knew used to say, is that it doesnt hurt anyone else.

— Monica Furlong

I think that of all the diseases in the world, the disease that all humankind suffers from, the disease that is most devastating to…

— Rich Mullins

“Rockaway? That's my special place with Gage - was anyway. Now it'll 'forever' be marked with gluttony and vomit - sounds about right.”

— Addison Moore

Gluttony should be destroyed by self-control; unchastity by desire for God and longing for the blessings held in store; avarice by compassion for the…

— John of Damascus

I read a lot. I always have, but in those two years I gorged myself on books with a voluptuous, almost erotic gluttony. I…

— Tana French

As dialect began to be collected in the late 19th century, such words as Yorkshire's 'gobslotch' emerged, revealing the burgeoning association between gluttony and…

— Susie Dent

Born merely for the purpose of digestion.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Adam became so proud that he wished to become God and died for his pride; the Son of God humbled Himself unto death, and…

— John of Kronstadt