Glutton

(134 votes)   Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth.

French Proverbs
Sayings of French Origin

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(127 votes)   The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.

Josh Billings
1815-1885, American Humorist, Lecturer

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(106 votes)   The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they embrace.

Seneca
4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(106 votes)   They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.

(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal
c.55-c.130, Roman Satirical Poet

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(104 votes)   A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''

Elbert Hubbard
1859-1915, American Author, Publisher

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(103 votes)   The fool that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.

George W. Thornbury

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(100 votes)   One meal a day is enough for a lion, and it ought to be for a man.

George Fordyce

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