Gluttony Quotes

85 quotes by 81 authors

Never rise from the table without having given due thanks to the Lord. If we act in this way, we need have no fear of… — Pio of Pietrelcina
Your Nafs is just like a suckling child. If you do not take the pains to wean him, he will yearn for his mother's breast… — Busiri
I'm not the most emotionally attuned guy in the world. My wife says that me writing about emotion is like Gandhi writing about gluttony. — David Brooks
I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears… — Martial
Born merely for the purpose of digestion. — Jean de la Bruyere
Gluttony and drunkenness have two evils attendant on them; they make the carcass smart, as well as the pocket. — Marcus Aurelius
The glutton is much more than an animal and much less than a man. — Honore de Balzac
Swinish gluttony never looks to heaven amidst its gorgeous feast; but with besotted, base ingratitude, cravens and blasphemes his feeder. — John Milton
If America can go to the moon, then in the decades to come we should not ever have to have young Americans sent to any… — John F. Kerry
The avenues in my neighborhood are Pride, Covetousness and Lust; the cross streets are Anger, Gluttony, Envy and Sloth. I live over on Sloth, and… — John Chancellor
Gluttony, do not eat thy neighbor's wife's popcorn. — Jimmy Buffett
The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a… — Thomas Hobbes
Gluttony might be innocuous were it not for the fact that gluttons tend to disregard whether their self-serving behaviors harm anyone else. We don't need… — Simon Mainwaring
The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony.… — Dave Mustaine
Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us. — Peter De Vries
Gluttony is not a secret vice. — Orson Welles
He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise. — Henry David Thoreau
I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food — Erma Bombeck
If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron. — Spider Robinson
Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called canibalism. It is looked down upon in most societies. — Tim Burton

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