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.
The way of the consumerist culture is to spend so much energy chasing happiness that it has none left to be happy.
(n.) Excess in eating; extravagant indulgence of the appetite for food; voracity.
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
The best part is coming.What's the best part? You swallowing an entire cow whole?No. That's the finale.
If necessity is the mother of invention, then surely greed must be the father. Children of this odd couple are named: Laziness, Envy, Greed, Jr., Gluttony, Lust, Anger and Pride.
The only good thing about that decision, Gatt, is that I'll get tea before you.
As it turned out, everyone wanted a doughnut. Jace wanted two.
There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
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.
If we are defined by reason and morality, then reason and morality must define our choices, even when animals are concerned. When people say, for example, that they like their veal or hot dogs too muc...
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 bl...
Oh, pity the poor gluttonWhose troubles all beginIn struggling on and on to turnWhat's out into what's in.
In a way, gluttony is an athletic feat, a stretching exercise.
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, boastin...
Shukhov ate his supper without bread--a double portion and bread on top of it would be too rich. So he'd save the bread. You get no thanks from your belly--it always forgets what you've just done for...
Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.
Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called canibalism. It is looked down upon in most societies.