#glut

Oh, pity the poor glutton Whose troubles all begin In struggling on and on to turn What's out into what's in. ↗

— Walter de La Mare

#food #glutton #gluttony #obesity #the-glutton

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 it and comes begging again the next day. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#gluttony #hunger #food

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#gives #glut #information #itself #less

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have. ↗

— Socrates

#contentment #gluttony #greed #greed

Gluttony is wrong. It's wasteful. ↗

— Alton Brown

#wasteful #wrong

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#love #matter #pleasure #precision #utmost

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

— Peter De Vries

#eating #emotional #escape #gluttony #sign

Gluttony is not a secret vice. ↗

— Orson Welles

#secret #vice

Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#fear #fine #forcing #gluttony #hypocrisy

Symphonic orchestras have almost become a glut in the market. ↗

— Skitch Henderson

#become #glut #market #orchestras #symphonic