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
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
But for the cravings of the belly not a bird would have fallen into the snare; nay, nay, the fowler would not… — Saadi 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
“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
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
In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision. — Italo Calvino 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
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
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
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
As long as the vice of gluttony has a hold on a man, all that he has done valiantly is forfeited by… — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
Never rise from the table without having given due thanks to the Lord. If we act in this way, we need have… — Pio of Pietrelcina 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
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
Gluttony and idleness are two of life's great joys, but they are not honourable. — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
My whole comic persona is that of a guy who explores the id: I romanticize gluttony, I romanticize laziness, and people identify… — Jim Gaffigan 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
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
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
“If necessity is the mother of invention, then surely greed must be the father. Children of this odd couple are named: Laziness,… — John R. Dallas Jr 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
Swinish gluttony never looks to heaven amidst its gorgeous feast; but with besotted, base ingratitude, cravens and blasphemes his feeder. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“And recently, we installed another word in its place which, to their minds, has a wholly positive connotation. We say ‘Gluttony’. They… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
