A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''
Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth.
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
One meal a day is enough for a lion, and it ought to be for a man.
The fool that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.
The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.
The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they embrace.
Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god.
They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.