Quotes about glutton

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The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.

— Josh Billings

Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god.

— Charles Buck

One meal a day is enough for a lion, and it ought to be for a man.

— George Fordyce

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

— Benjamin Franklin

A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who lives well.

— Elbert Hubbard

They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.

— (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal

Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth.

— French Proverb

The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they embrace.

— Seneca

The fool that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.

— George W. Thornbury