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“The one whose concern is with that
which enters the belly will discover that his value is found in that
which goes out of it.”
― Abu Hamid al-Ghazali

“But your laziness leads you astray;
your greed makes you dumb;
your gluttony makes enemies for you.”
― Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms

“The way of the consumerist culture is to spend so much energy chasing happiness that it has none left to be happy.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“Nothing helps gluttony along so well as eating food you don’t have to pay for yourself”
― Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad

“Envy is Pride's infection on inspiration...while Angered then Eaten by the Greed of a Lazy Lust.”
― Criss Jami

“In a way, gluttony is an athletic feat, a stretching exercise.”
― John Updike, Rabbit at Rest

“Gluttony is the act of digging a grave with your own teeth.”
― Enock Maregesi

“How long could we allow this beast
To gorge and guzzle, feed and feast
On everything he wanted to?
Great Scott! It simply wouldn't do!
However long this pig might live,
We're positive he'd never give
Even the smallest bit of fun
Or happiness to anyone.”
― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

“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.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Everything for you stems from a physical need. Most of you think with either your belly or what’s below it”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, The Rise of Shams

“The greatest masters have only made single statues, groups are always inferior; that is why Carpeaux, big though he was, is less so than Rodin, for he never knew how to make single statues. He did not know how to find his rhythm in the arrangement of the shapes of one body, but obtained it by the disposition of several. The great sculptors are there to prove it. Think of the masterpieces which we like most, all standing or seated, and one at a time, and they are not in the least monotonous. The connoisseur loves one spicy cake, but the glutton requires at least six to stimulate his pleasure.”
― H.S. Ede, Savage Messiah

“In Physicia Baal is still worshiped as Bolus, and as Belly he is adored and served with abundant sacrifice by the priests of Guttledom.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

“The world is wide, wide, wide, and I am young, young, young, and we’re all going to live forever!'

We were very hungry but we didn’t want to leave, so we ate there. We had chicken sandwiches; boy, the chicken of the century. Dry, wry, and tender, the dryness sort of rubbing against your tongue on soft, bouncy white bread with slivers of juicy wet pickles. Then we had some very salty potato chips and some olives stuffed with pimentos and some Indian nuts and some tiny pearl onions and some more popcorn. Then we washed the whole thing down with iced martinis and finished up with large cups of strong black coffee and cigarettes. One of my really great meals.”
― Elaine Dundy, The Dud Avocado

“I wonder if it’s in losing everything that we realize that all we’ve lost is the ‘nothingâ€� that we mistakenly thought was ‘everything.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The glutton lives to eat instead of eating to live.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“for the subject of the verb
to-hunger is never a name :
dear Adam and Eve had different bottoms,
but the neotene who marches
upright and can subtract reveals a belly
like the serpent's with the same
vulnerable look. Jew, Gentile or pigmy,
he must get his calories
before he can consider her profile or
his own, attack you or play chess,
and take what there is however hard to get down :
then surely those in whose creed
God is edible may call a fine
omelette a Christian deed.”
― W.H. Auden, Selected Poems

“Some people eat to quench hunger, and some eat just to satisfy their gluttony.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“And recently, we installed another word in its place which, to their minds, has a wholly positive connotation. We say ‘Gluttonyâ€�. They say ‘Consumerismâ€�.”
― Geoffrey Wood

“Only good poets cure us of an overindulgence in words. Only simple essential food cures us of gluttony.”
― Héctor Abad

“Mammon ni mungu wa pesa wa kuzimu anayesimamia mambo yote ya kifedha ulimwenguni. Ni miongoni mwa mashetani saba waliotupwa na Mwenyezi Mungu hapa duniani kutokea mbinguni akiwemo Ibilisi, Beelzebub, Asmodeus, Leviathan, Amon na Belphegor. Ibilisi ni mungu wa kiburi, Beelzebub ni mungu wa uroho, Asmodeus ni mungu wa zinaa, Leviathan ni mungu wa wivu, Amon ni mungu wa hasira na Belphegor ni mungu wa uvivu. Jukumu la mashetani hawa ni kusimamia kwa uaminifu mkubwa kutokea kuzimu dhambi kubwa saba duniani ambazo ni kiburi, uroho, zinaa, wivu, hasira, uvivu na uchoyo. Dawa ya dhambi hizo ni busara, kiasi, ujasiri, imani, haki, tumaini na upendo.”
― Enock Maregesi

“Wachawi wanamwabudu Shetani. Lakini Shetani wanayemwabudu si Shetani Ibilisi aliyeumbwa na Mwenyezi Mungu kuja kuudanganya ulimwengu wote. Ni Shetani roho ya mabadiliko, mabadiliko ya kweli, ya ufahamu kamilia ulimwengu huu ambamo sisi sote tunaishi. Wachawi, kwa maneno mengine, wanaabudu miungu â€� kama vile Inanna wa Mesopotamia, Isis wa Misri, Asherah wa Kaanani au Belus wa Assyria ambaye ndiye mungu wa kwanza kuabuadiwa kama sanamu duniani â€� iliyotwaliwa na Shetani tangu misingi ya ulimwengu huu kusimikwa. Dhambi aliyotenda Shetani mbinguni ni ndogo kuliko dhambi wanazotenda wachawi duniani, ijapokuwa dhambi aliyotenda Shetani haitaweza kusamehewa na ndiyo maana Shetani hataweza kuwasamehe wanadamu. Ni jukumu letu kuwaita wachawi wote kutoka Babeli na kuwaleta katika ukweli kama kweli wanayemwabudu ni Shetani Ibilisi, Shetani Beelzebub, Shetani Asmodeus, Shetani Leviathan, Shetani Mammon, Shetani Amon au Shetani Belphegor ambao ni mabingwa wa kiburi, uroho, zinaa, wivu, fedha, hasira na uvivu duniani. Wachawi hawajui, na usipojua waweza kufa bila kujua.”
― Enock Maregesi

“Instead of going out on Saturday night as planned, I decided to stay in with a few of my closest friends from the complex carbohydrate family. Well actually, like most of my friends, they're not that complex.”
― Angela Pippos, The Goddess Advantage

“The last of us fell
between the concrete fractures
and steel memories of life.
Nature gave the lot
and we took with our eyes closed
until nobody remained.”
― Phen Weston, The Silent Balance: A Collection of Waka Poetry

“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.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Fulgens hoc aurum praestringit oculos [This gold with its glitter blinds the eyes]. Varius.”
― Thomas Watson

“But I think there's something inside of us, something that blooms in us in adolescence and never leaves...and it's just...*want*. [...]
Some people work to minimize it with mindfulness and meditation; some people let it grow and run free and take over their lives. But some people, and I consider myself one of them, study their want, refine it, and build an engine that burns it. Even if their want pushes all in one direction, they can tack against it like a sailboat, getting somewhere better than where they *wanted* to be.”
― Hank Green, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor

“Hedonism is based on the illusion that what we enjoy inevitably leaves us in joy.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The best way to end up having nothing is to get everything that you want.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“And it seemed fitting both for Andrei, and hypothetically the creators of the film, that when he got up to leave in the middle of it, he did so as an ode to the film. A statement of departure that said: 'If you made the movie for the reason I think you did, perhaps you wouldn’t be offended that I left the damn place and decided to chase after life. Inspiration is unlimited, but time is not. Thank you. Goodbye!'

He left the poet’s book in the seat beside him, took his popcorn and soda, and exited the cinema the way the writers would have wanted.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, A Happy Ghost

“The most dangerous things in life are overeating and the lack of ambition.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts