(16 quotes found)
“Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.”
Socrates
“Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities and the fountain of all our diseases. As fire extinguished by an excess of fuel, so is the natural health of the body destroyed by an intemperate diet.”
Burton
“Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.”
Peter De Vries
“In New Orleans, gluttony is a way of life.”
Morton J. Horwitz
“Gluttony is not a secret vice.”
Orson Welles
“It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility”
Samuel Johnson
“FEAST, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness. In the Roman Catholic Church feasts are "movable" and "immovable," but the celebrants are uniformly immovable until they are full. In their earliest development these entertainments took the form of feasts for the dead; such were held by the Greeks, under the name _Nemeseia_, by the Aztecs and Peruvians, as in modern times they are popular with the Chinese; though it is believed that the ancient dead, like the modern, were light eaters. Among the many feasts of the Romans was the _Novemdiale_, which was held, according to Livy, whenever stones fell from heaven.”
Ambrose Bierce
“In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.”
Italo Calvino
“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 the style on our street is to avoid the other thoroughfares.”
John Chancellor
