Gluttony Quotes

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Gluttony is wrong. It's wasteful. — Alton Brown
Gluttony and idleness are two of life's great joys, but they are not honourable. — Julie Burchill
In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision. — Italo Calvino
Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It… — W. Somerset Maugham
It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility. — Samuel Johnson
I think that of all the diseases in the world, the disease that all humankind suffers from, the disease that is most devastating to us… — Rich Mullins
Want and wealth equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive away… — Theodore Parker
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have. — Socrates
Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live. — Socrates
Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving. — Charles Lamb
Ever a glutton, at another's cost, But in whose kitchen dwells perpetual frost. — John Dryden
Just as animal research tells us that gluttony and sloth are side effects of a drive to accumulate body fat, it also says that eating… — Gary Taubes
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
All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, averice and sloth know some… — Angus Wilson
The seven deadly sins of the Christian Church are: greed, pride, envy, anger, gluttony, lust, and sloth. Satanism advocates indulging in each of these 'sins'… — Anton Szandor LaVey
Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up dignity. In gluttony there must be eating, in drunkenness there… — John Selden
Some men find happiness in gluttony and in drunkenness, but no delicate viands can touch their taste with the thrill of pleasure, and what generosity… — Edwin Percy Whipple
Enjoy thy stream, O harmless fish; And when an angler for his dish, Through gluttony's vile sin, Attempts, the wretch, to pull thee out, God… — John Wolcot
The pleasures of sin exist. We cannot deny them. But we also dare not deny what follows in their wake: a voracious appetite, inflamed with… — Edwin Louis Cole
How can you say you're trying to spiritually evolve, without even a thought about what happens to the animals whose lives are sacrificed in the… — Oprah Winfrey

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