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

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

Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth.

Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth.

The fool that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.

The fool that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.

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

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

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

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

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

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

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

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.