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Quotations on Glutton
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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
The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide. ~ Josh Billings
The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they embrace. ~ Seneca
Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth. ~ Proverbs - French Proverb
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