An aphorism is nothing else but the slightest
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60,000 QUOTES SPIDER
 


QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON GLUTTONY

 

 

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 (1706-1790, American scientist, publisher, diplomat)

 

God forgives the sin of gluttony.

 

Catalan Proverb

 

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.

 

Author Unknown

 

Gluttony kills more than the sword.

 

Author Unknown

 

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

 

Peter De Vries (1910-1993, American author)

 

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four unless there are three other people.

 

Orson Welles (1915-1985, American film maker)

 

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