Gluttony is the act or habit of eating or drinking too much
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In today’s world, is common to eat more than we need
- Greed, envy, sloth, pride and gluttony: these are not vices anymore. No, these are marketing tools. Lust is our way of life. Envy is just a nudge towards another sale. Even in our relationships we consume each other, each of us looking for what we can get out of the other. Our appetites are often satisfied at the expense of those around us. In a dog-eat- dog world we lose part of our humanity. Jon Foreman
- In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires. Benjamin Franklin
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Gluttony can be dangerous to your health
- 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. Robert Burton
- 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 intemperate diet. Marion L. Burton
- Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth. French Proverb
- Gluttony kills more than the sword. Proverb
- The fool that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well. George W. Thornbury
- Health, Illness
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As you’d expect, the bible isn’t too keen on gluttony
- Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. Bible
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In fact, gluttony is seen as one of the deadly sins
- 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
- 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
- Sin
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By some, gluttony is even seen as kind of lust
- 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
- Love comforteth like sunshine after rain, But lust’s effect is tempest after sun; Love’s gentle spring doth always fresh remain, Lust’s winter comes ere summer half be done; Love surfeit’s not, Lust like a glutton dies, Love is all truth, Lust full. William Shakespeare
- 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
- Lust
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For many, gluttony is a kind of addiction …
- Overeating is the addiction of choice of carers, and that’s why it’s come to be regarded as the lowest-ranking of all the addictions. It’s a way of fucking yourself up while still remaining fully functional, because you have to. Fat people aren’t indulging in the “luxury” of their addiction making them useless, chaotic, or a burden. Instead, they are slowly self- destructing in a way that doesn’t inconvenience anyone. And that’s why it’s so often a woman’s addiction of choice. All the quietly eating mums. All the KitKats in office drawers. All the unhappy moments, late at night, caught only in the fridge light. Caitlin Moran
- Addiction
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… a kind of emotional escape
- Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us. Peter De Vries
- We have it in our head that if we fill our stomachs, we’ll fill our hearts. Kate Wicker
- We don’t get fat because we overeat; we overeat because we’re getting fat. Gary Taubes
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Gluttonous behaviour isn’t necessarily restricted to food
- 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
- Food
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Don’t make eating your reason to live
- Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live. Socrates
- They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live. Juvenal
- One should eat to live, not live to eat. Benjamin Franklin
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Savour your food and you’re less likely to be a glutton
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Sometimes there is a fine line between being a gourmet and a glutton
- Gourmet: A glutton festooned with credit cards. J Harris Sydney
- Gourmet: A glutton who reads French. Colin Bowles
- Gourmet: A glutton who reads French.
- Gourmet: A glutton festooned with credit cards.
- A gourmet is just a glutton with brains. Phillip W. Haberman, Jr.
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On a lighter note
- Am I tough? Am I strong? Am I hard-core? Absolutely. Did I whimper with pathetic delight when I sank my teeth into my hot fried-chicken sandwich? You betcha. James Patterson
- Cravings: An excuse to gluttonize your way through pregnancy.
- 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
- Glutton, n. A person who escapes the evils of moderation by committing dyspepsia. Ambrose Bierce
- Glutton: A person who takes the piece of French pastry you wanted.
- Gluttony is not a secret vice. Orson Welles
- Gluttony: A sign something is eating us.
- Gourmet: A glutton who reads French.
- Gourmet: A glutton festooned with credit cards. J Harris Sydney
- I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food. Erma Bombeck
- I have a head for business and a body for sin. Unfortunately, the sin appears to be gluttony. Jenny Colgan
- I suppose there are people who can pass up free guacamole, but they’re either allergic to avocado or too joyless to live. Frank Bruni
- If God didn’t want me to eat chicken in church, then he would have made gluttony a sin. Homer Simpson
- Peter Marshall: Pride, anger, covetousness, lust, gluttony, envy and sloth are collectively known as what? Paul Lynde: The Bill of Rights. Paul Lynde
- Sometimes I had difficulty remembering that “all you can eat” is not a personal challenge. Marika Christian
- 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
- The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store and the other stores his hide. Josh Billings
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