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Gluttony Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Gluttony is a great fault; but we do not necessarily dislike a glutton. We only dislike the glutton when he becomes a gourmet-that is, we…
- If a man called Christmas Day a mere hypocritical excuse for drunkenness and gluttony, that would be false, but it would have a fact hidden…
More Gluttony Quotes
- 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… — 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… — Rich Mullins
- Want and wealth equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony… — 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… — Gary Taubes