Plautus Quotes

All surfeit is the father of much fast.

Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow. Lat.

Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.'

Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty.

Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.

When sages commend excess, Desire is sick.

You know, I live a monastic lifestyle. No, I do. I do live in extremes, basically. I go back and forth. Once every six months, I'll have a day where I eat more chocolate than has ever been consumed by a human being.

I am not drinking now but I cannot guarantee tomorrow.

We never repent of having eaten too little.

I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse.

All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.

One's too many, and a hundred's not enough.

We have drunk too much of your rum already, which has occasioned our destruction; we will, in the future, beware of it.

Take heed to your selves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness.

Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty.

No nation was ever drunk when wine was cheap.

You can have your cake and eat it. But my God, it will go rotten inside you.

He who feasts every day, feasts no day.

Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace. Leave gormandizing.

Moderation is like sobriety: you would like to have some more, but are afraid of making yourself ill.

It is not consistent with truth that a man should sacrifice half of his stomach only to God-that he should be sober in drinking, but intemperate in eating. Your belly is your God, your liver is your temple, your paunch is your altar, the cook is your priest, and the fat steam is your Holy Spirit; the seasonings and the sauces are your chrisms, and your belchings are your prophesizing...[such] a grossly- feeding Christian is akin to lions and wolves rather than God. Our Lord Jesus called Himself Truth and not habit.

Two drinks a day. Two drinks a day. TWO DRINKS A DAY! It doesn't work! Not when you want eleven, and not when you start shopping for wine glasses in the vase department at Bloomingdales.