It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility. — Samuel Johnson 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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
The glutton is much more than an animal and much less than a man. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who strangle those whom they embrace. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Gluttony and idleness are two of life's great joys, but they are not honourable. — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called canibalism. It is looked down upon in most… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
Drunkenness is deplorably destructive, but her demurer sister Gluttony destroys a hundred to her one. — William Kitchiner Copy Share Image
Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
The whole glorification of opulence and gluttony... it's just sickening to me. — Everlast Copy Share Image
In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision. — Italo Calvino 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
Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up dignity. In gluttony there must be eating,… — John Selden Copy Share Image
Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present.… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
I think kids do best when they only have a couple of things that they really enjoy. I try and stay away… — Reese Witherspoon Copy Share Image
“Eventually, mercifully, the waitress prised the spoons out of our hands and took the dessert stuff away, and we were able to… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Holiday binge-buying has deep roots in American culture: department stores have been associating turkey gluttony with its spending equivalent since they began… — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
“Why do you want a new truth when you do not practice what you already know? Far better to read a few… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
With the exception of octopus, I don't think I've met any food that I didn't like. And by the way, sometimes I… — Justin Timberlake Copy Share Image
Gluttony might be innocuous were it not for the fact that gluttons tend to disregard whether their self-serving behaviors harm anyone else.… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
Royce Westmoreland stared at him with biting scorn. "I despise hypocrisy, particularly when it is coated with holiness." "May I ask for… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
He grinned. “I was trying to remember all the deadly sins the other day,” he said. “Greed,envy, gluttony, irony, pedantry…” “I’m pretty… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
It is a curious fact that no man likes to call himself a glutton, and yet each of us has in him… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
In my dreams I gorge on chocolates, I roll in chocolates, and their texture is not brittle but soft as flesh, like… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
The pleasures of sin exist. We cannot deny them. But we also dare not deny what follows in their wake: a voracious… — Edwin Louis Cole Copy Share Image
MOST of the ugliness in the human narrative comes from a distorted quest to possess beauty. COVETING begins with appreciating blessings: MURDER… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
When you look at food as an ethical issue in the Christian tradition, you don't find very much about it. You don't… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
As for the house, it is scrubbed to the tiniest mousehole before Passover, to avoid such dangers as even a forgotten cake… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
