The glutton usually realizes that gout is ever ready to pounce, and that alcohol is bad for him. But possible disaster weighs light in the scale against certain pleasure.

Unkindness is inspired by hatred, anger fuels it into action in which there is no great joy; it would take sadism to turn it into something pleasurable; unkind people imagine themselves to be inflicting pain on someone equally unkind.

People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.

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

A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who "lives well.".

He had a warning heart attack in his 30's after a meal of macaroni and cheese and big mac's and macaroons.. but God gave him a 2nd chance.