52 Quotes About Gluttony

As it turned out, everyone wanted a doughnut. Jace wanted two.

To be blessed and yet permit gluttony to blind me to the blessings is to banish myself to a life of unrelenting poverty even though I might be utterly engulfed in the embrace of a million marvelous blessings.

Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called canibalism. It is looked down upon in most societies.

And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.

Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy, rather than in the coarse pleasures he indulges in today -- gluttony, fornication, ostentation, boasting, and envious vying with his neighbor? I am certain this is not a vain hope and that the day will come soon.

I have a head for business and a body for sin. Unfortunately, the sin appears to be gluttony.

There is an invincible fortress that greed, gluttony and all of the other self-centered forces relentlessly assail with great force. Yet this unassailable fortress is such that the torrent may advance against it in a manner both vile and formidable, but the mad rage of this crazed maelstrom born of greed will helplessly fall to an exhausted calm before it ever touches its walls. And it is the simple attitude of thankfulness that builds a massive fortress such as this.

The one whose concern is with thatwhich enters the belly will discover that his value is found in thatwhich goes out of it.

Many obese people spend a significant amount of their energy on suppressing the urge to tell some of the people who are staring at them that they do not eat as much and as frequently as they seem to.