“ This making of Christians will raise the price of hogs; if we grow all to be pork-eaters, we shall not shortly have a rasher on the coals for money. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide. ”
- Josh Billings- Copy
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“ The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they embrace. ”
- Marcus Annaeus Seneca- Copy
- 66
“ In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
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“ One meal a day is enough for a lion, and it ought to be for a man. ”
- George Fordyce- Copy
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“ Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god. ”
- Charles Buck- Copy
- 53
“ Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony. ”
- Jonah Goldberg- Copy
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“ This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave. ”
- Thomas Wolfe- Copy
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