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Gluttony is wrong. It's wasteful. -- Alton Brown
Gluttony is not a secret vice. -- Orson Welles
Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us. -- Peter De Vries
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 lust of the mind. -- 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 to look far and wide to find examples of gluttonous behavior, as they are numerous throughout the history of capitalism. -- Simon Mainwaring
I think it's important to encourage gluttony in all its formats. -- Lydia Lunch
In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision. -- Italo Calvino
Gluttony and idleness are two of life's great joys, but they are not honourable. -- Julie Burchill
Gluttony and drunkenness have two evils attendant on them; they make the carcass smart, as well as the pocket. -- Marcus Aurelius
Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony. -- Jonah Goldberg
My whole comic persona is that of a guy who explores the id: I romanticize gluttony, I romanticize laziness, and people identify with that. -- Jim Gaffigan
I'm famous for splurging at fast-food places. I'm currently obsessed with Taco Bell's bean and cheese burritos with extra green sauce and extra cheese. Gluttony! -- Fergie
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
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. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter. -- Dave Mustaine
Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities and the fountain of all our diseases. As a lamp is choked by a superabundance of oil, and a fire extinguished by excess of fuel, so is the natural health of the body destroyed by intempe diet. -- Marion LeRoy Burton
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 only dislike him when he not only wants the best for himself, but knows what is best for other people. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gluttony is mankind's exclusive prerogative. -- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Gluttony, do not eat thy neighbor's wife's popcorn. -- Jimmy Buffett
Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving. -- Charles Lamb
Drunkenness is deplorably destructive, but her demurer sister Gluttony destroys a hundred to her one. -- William Kitchiner
Gluttony and Lust are the only sins that abuse something that is essential to our survival. -- Henry Fairlie
As to the Seven Deadly Sins, I deplore Pride, Wrath, Lust, Envy and Greed. Gluttony and Sloth I pretty much plan my day around. -- Robert Breault
Gluttony and sloth, as worldly goals, were quietly usurped by avarice and lust, which, together with poetry (yes, poetry), consumed all my free time. -- Martin Amis
These are the Seven Deadly Sins: Avarice, Envy, Pride, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Sloth. These are the seven deadly sins: venality, paranoia, insecurity, excess, carnality, contempt, boredom. -- Martin Amis
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Gluttony? I could eat and eat and eat and eat and eat. I'd love to pig out on gluten. I mean, I'm allergic to gluten, but I really want to do that. I want to sit in bed one day and just pig out. -- Naomi Campbell
The belly has no ears. -- Plutarch
Born merely for the purpose of digestion. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Festivals cause diseases, since they lighten cares but increase gluttony. -- Apollonius of Tyana
The glutton is much more than an animal and much less than a man. -- Honore de Balzac
It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility. -- Samuel Johnson
I have a head for business and a body for sin. Unfortunately, the sin appears to be gluttony. -- Jenny Colgan
What I like about gluttony, a bishop I knew used to say, is that it doesnt hurt anyone else. -- Monica Furlong
The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide. -- Josh Billings
Swinish gluttony never looks to heaven amidst its gorgeous feast; but with besotted, base ingratitude, cravens and blasphemes his feeder. -- John Milton
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
Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness. -- Ambrose Bierce
Holiday binge-buying has deep roots in American culture: department stores have been associating turkey gluttony with its spending equivalent since they began sponsoring Thanksgiving Day parades in the early 20th century. -- Adam Davidson
Information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom. Reading - even browsing - an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search. Patience is a virtue, gluttony a sin. -- James Gleick
I always listen to music, my passion and vice is music, I will be denied access to heaven because of the number of CDs I own, and I have gluttony for all types and colours of music. -- Anthony Minghella
Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job. -- W. Somerset Maugham
Evidence of defendants' lavish lifestyles is often used to provide a motive for fraud. Jurors sometimes wonder why an executive making tens of millions of dollars would cheat to make even more. Evidence of habitual gluttony helps provide the answer. -- Alex Berenson
Not addicted to gluttony or drunkenness, this people who incur no expense in food or dress, and whose minds are always bent upon the defence of their country, and on the means of plunder, are wholly employed in the care of their horses and furniture. -- Giraldus Cambrensis
With the exception of octopus, I don't think I've met any food that I didn't like. And by the way, sometimes I do like octopus. I'm just not crazy about it by itself. I love sea urchin. I love uni. If I'm going to die of anything, it's going to be gluttony. -- Justin Timberlake
Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live -- Socrates
Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour. -- Victor Hugo
I ache not from need -but from my heart's gluttony of you. -- Muse
When in doubt first follow the money trail, second jealousy, third gluttony. -- Grant Walker
My regimen is lust and avarice for exercise, gluttony and sloth for relaxation. -- Mason Cooley
There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony. -- Henry David Thoreau
We are suggesting a new kind of opulence, of intelligent indulgence over blind gluttony. -- Naeem Khan
Fate might forgive greed, or gluttony, or even bloodlust, but it never ignores being ignored. -- Erik Bundy
Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion. -- Isabel Allende
O Music! how it grieves me that imprudence, intemperance, gluttony, should open their channels into thy sacred stream. -- Walter Savage Landor
Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness. -- Nicolas Chamfort
I've noticed the people most uptight about smokers and drinkers don't really have a problem with gluttony and gossip. -- Tim Hawkins
Such gluttony second to none Almost ended fatally When a bone choked a wolf as he gulped what he ate -- Jean de La Fontaine
Like gluttony or drunkenness, hatred seems an agreeable vice when you practice it yourself, but disgusting when observed in others. -- William Henry Irwin
Had we been as free from all sins as we were from gluttony and drunkenness we might have been canonized for saints... -- John Smith
The world is naturally averse to all truth it sees or hears but swallows nonsense and a lie with greediness and gluttony. -- Samuel Butler
Pride, anger, gluttony, and idleness are sometimes conquered, but the conversion of a malicious and envious mind is a kind of miracle. -- Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont
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
Jerry Falwell says that abortion and homosexuality are sins. Oh yeah? Well, so is gluttony, Jerry. So maybe you should think about dropping 50 pounds. -- Dennis Miller
We are not born with a need for knowledge, but a hunger for it. Eve bit the apple and it has been gluttony ever since. -- Anthony Marais
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
How can you say you're trying to spiritually evolve, without even a thought about what happens to the animals whose lives are sacrificed in the name of gluttony? -- Oprah Winfrey
Craving for power is not a vice of the body, consequently it knows none of the limitations imposed by a tired or satiated physiology upon gluttony, intemperance and lust -- Aldous Huxley
A big man is always accused of gluttony, whereas a wizened or osseous man can eat like a refugee at every meal, and no one ever notices his greed. -- Robertson Davies
O lust, thou infernal fire, whose fuel is gluttony; whose flame is pride, whose sparkles are wanton words; whose smoke is infamy; whose ashes are uncleanness; whose end is hell. -- Francis Quarles
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 the wretched sin of gluttony. -- Pio of Pietrelcina
Want and wealth equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive away nature from the heart of man. -- Theodore Parker
My worst vice is gluttony. I try to keep myself under control because I'm an athlete, but once a week I like to pig out and act like a normal person. -- Gianluigi Buffon
People who acquire things beyond their usefulness not only will derive little or no marginal gains from these acquisitions, but they also will experience negative consequences, as with any form of gluttony. -- Ray Dalio
The seven deadly sins of the Christian Church are: greed, pride, envy, anger, gluttony, lust, and sloth. Satanism advocates indulging in each of these 'sins' as they all lead to physical, mental, or emotional gratification. -- Anton Szandor LaVey

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