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Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth.


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Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth.
FRENCH PROVERB Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave.
GEORG BUCHNER The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his ...
JOSH BILLINGS The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores hi...
JOSH BILLINGS The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his ...
JOSH BILLINGS God gives nuts to those with no teeth. -Arabic proverb.
ARABIC PROVERB Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the l...
KUO HIS Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the l...
KUO HIS He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be ot...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can come to him with his double bridle? / Who can o...
BIBLE Whoever digs a pit for his neighbor should dig it his own size.
TURKISH PROVERB He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth...
BIBLE He who hurries through life hurries to his grave.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN He who strikes his father or mother his hand will grow out of the grave.
VIKRANT PARSAI Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has passed his life in seclusion.
UNKNOWN The silence of the grave gagged the living; people who had talked with his incarnate approval became...
PETER EVANS He's always showing those teeth with his big smile.
BRENDA POUSSON The guest at the lower end of the middle couch, with three hairs on his bald head and his scalp stre...
MARCUS AURELIUS The glutton cannot turn his mind to God,” he said dismissively. “But neither can the starving ma...
KATHERINE ARDEN Nobody used to look at George Washington, with his wooden teeth, in his powdered wig, and say, Fashi...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Who hastens a glutton choakes him.
GEORGE HERBERT His family was buried all around him but his grave was unmarked.
GENE BEALS Richard opened his hand, and the key stared up at him from his palm. "By my crooked teeth," asked Ri...
NEIL GAIMAN The prime minister is sedated and on a respirator. One could say his condition is grave.
SHLOMO MOR YOSEF A man who would not love his father's grave is worse than a wild animal.
CHIEF JOSEPH Hey," Anaxantis protested. "Oh," he added, when the Muktar prince took his member in his mouth. "Oh....
ANDREW ASHLING Grace is great because of his grave.
THE INSPIRATIONIST Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.
WILLIAM R. ALGER His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb.
BIBLE Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done? / Yet shall he be ...
BIBLE A justice with grave justices shall sit; He praise their wisdom, they admire his wit.
JOHN GAY My brother had his wisdom teeth out.
KAREN SLOAN At the most one could say that his chi or ... personal god was good. But the Ibo people have a prove...
CHINUA ACHEBE All good books wind up, I think, with the writer getting his teeth bashed in.
DAVID SHIELDS Just call me a family man and an actor who digs his whole scene, side interests and all. Just say I ...
BOBBY DARIN The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they emb...
SENECA A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who "lives w...
ELBERT HUBBARD He had a warning heart attack in his 30's after a meal of macaroni and cheese and big mac's and maca...
O ANNA NIEMUS Senator Kerry carries shrapnel in his thigh, as distinct from President Bush, who carries two fillin...
JOHN PODESTA His teeth sang in their individual sockets like tuning forks, each one pitch-perfect and clear as et...
WILLIAM GIBSON Mad is the man who is forever gritting his teeth against that granite block, complete and changeless...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame; ...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH I think Knute Rockne is turning over in his grave.
STEVE COX Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth which goes with him only while good ...
THE TALMUD Not she with trait'rous kiss her Saviour stung, Not she denied Him with unholy tongue; She, wh...
EATON STANNARD BARRETT The morning sun, the smoke rising from a ,burning corpse, and a broken seat must be avoided. Let him...
GURU NANAK One who learns from his enemies is as wise as one who learns from his friends.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO An individualist is one who pays his taxes with a smile
AL DIAMOND One who is in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
AMBROSE BIERCE Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
AMBROSE BIERCE A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.
PHILLIP H. HABERMAN JR. A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.
PHILLIP W. HABERMAN JR. A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.
PHILLIP W. HABERMAN, JR. If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN If Cesar knew about this, he'd roll over in his grave.
EFREN BARAJAS If Lincoln was alive today, he'd roll over in his grave.
GERALD FORD From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any FIRST AND FOREMOST object...
MARK TWAIN From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any first and foremost object...
MARK TWAIN He who works with his hands is a laborer.
He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsm...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green.
TORQUATO TASSO The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity
ANDRE GIDE The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerit...
ANDRÉ GIDE The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
ANDRé GIDE Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watche...
NICHOLSON BAKER A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craft...
LOUIS NIZER A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craft...
LOUIS NIZER Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.
PROVERB Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.
GERMAN PROVERB He who digs a pit for others, falls in himself
PROVERB The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competit...
ROY L. SMITH If Lincoln were alive today, he'd be turning over in his grave.
GERALD R. FORD The man and his woman is like the grave and its dead.
VIKRANT PARSAI If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.
RALPH KINER Mozart, who was buried in a pauper’s grave, was one of the greatest successes we know of, a man wh...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Well I just figure any man who risks his neck to save a dog's life isn't going to kill someone for g...
ALVIN ADAMS I like to think that Harry Cohn is having a somewhat difficult time sleeping in his grave thinking o...
BETSY BEERS They're also checking his teeth but he'll be okay to bat tomorrow.
RICKY PONTING The music and applause fast fading from his ears, Bruce would lay down his guitar, grit his teeth, a...
PETER AMES CARLIN Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've wa...
NICHOLSON BAKER Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.
E. M. CIORAN Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.
EMILE M. CIORAN A coward is one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
AMBROSE BIERCE Mr grandfather would turn in his grave if he could see it now.
CHARLES READ I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave.
MANFRED VON RICHTHOFEN If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.
RALPH KINER A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opportu...
REGINALD B. MANSELL A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opport...
REGINALD B. MANSELL A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opportu...
REGINALD B MANSELL Our teacher, Mr. Stratton, was way distracting with his angular face and broad shoulders. The dark-r...
KATRINA ABBOTT A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craft...
LOUIS NIZER He was kind of foaming at the mouth and his teeth were clenched.
DAN WATTS He bared his teeth in a happy feral grin. My own personal psycho.
ILONA ANDREWS A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes oppo...
HARRY S TRUMAN A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes oppo...
HARRY TRUMAN A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes oppo...
HARRY S TRUMAN He who digs a pit for others must invariably fall into it.
ESAN MAGAZINE Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.
ALEXANDER SMITH John Brown's body lies a mould'ring in the grave, His soul goes marching on.
THOMAS BRIGHAM BISHOP If Lincoln were alive today, he'd be turning over in his grave.
GERALD R. FORD He'd probably be laughing in his grave about what the kids are doing here.
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