GLUTTONY

Related Subjects: Eating, Excess, Hunger

1. Some men are born to feast, and not to fight;
   Whose sluggish minds, e'en in fair honor's field,
   Still on their dinner turn—
   Let such pot-boiling varlets stay at home,
   And wield a flesh-hook rather than a sword.—JOANNA BAILLIE, Basil
   

2. Whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame.—Bible, Philippians 3:19
   

3. More die by food than famine.—Proverb
   

4. Better fill a glutton's belly than his eye.—Proverb

5. A bellyful of gluttony will never study willingly.—Proverb
   

6. Who with a body filled and vacant mind
   Gets him to rest, crammed with distressful bread.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry V
   

7. Lord, Madame, I have fed like a farmer; I shall grow as fat as a porpoise.—SWIFT, Polite Conversation