Glutton Quotes
The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.Glutton
Billings, Josh
1815-1885 American Humorist Lecturer
Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god.
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Buck, Charles
One meal a day is enough for a lion, and it ought to be for a man.
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Fordyce, George
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
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Franklin, Benjamin
1706-1790 American Scientist Publisher Diplomat
A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who lives well.
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Hubbard, Elbert
1859-1915 American Author Publisher
They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.
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Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
c55-c130 Roman Satirical Poet
Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth.
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Proverb, French
Sayings of French Origin
The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they embrace.
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Seneca
4 BC – 65 AD Spanish-born Roman Statesman philosopher
The fool that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.
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Thornbury, George W.