"Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for……" — Charles Lamb
"Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving."
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192 Quotes by Charles Lamb
Charles Lamb has 192 quotes on this site.
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Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing…
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Mother's love grows by giving.
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Gone before To that unknown and silent shore.
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As down in the sunless retreats of the ocean Sweet flowers are springing no mortal can see, So deep in…
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A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it.
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No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and…
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We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.
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The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice.
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The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.
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A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company; everybody…
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Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new…
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His voice was the most obnoxious squeak I ever was tormented with.
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More Gluttony Quotes
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Gluttony is wrong. It's wasteful.
— Alton Brown
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Gluttony and idleness are two of life's great joys, but they are not honourable.
— Julie Burchill
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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.
— Italo Calvino
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Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.
— Samuel Johnson
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I think that of all the diseases in the world, the disease that all humankind suffers from, the disease that…
— Rich Mullins
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Want and wealth equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine…
— Theodore Parker
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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
— Socrates
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Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
— Socrates
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Ever a glutton, at another's cost, But in whose kitchen dwells perpetual frost.
— John Dryden
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Just as animal research tells us that gluttony and sloth are side effects of a drive to accumulate body fat,…
— Gary Taubes
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Jerry Falwell says that abortion and homosexuality are sins. Oh yeah? Well, so is gluttony, Jerry. So maybe you should…
— Dennis Miller
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