Tom Junod Quotes

The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and this is a vice to which not the gourmet but the gourmand is a slave.

Gluttony is not a secret vice.

I think it's important to encourage gluttony in all its formats.

I'm naturally greedy and would end up the size of a house if I ate all I wanted all of the time.

I'm famous for splurging at fast-food places. I'm currently obsessed with Taco Bell's bean and cheese burritos with extra green sauce and extra cheese. Gluttony!

I've never eaten just a few bites of things I liked in my life.

My old modus operandi was, if you're going to have a grilled cheese and bacon sandwich, don't have one, have two. If you're going to have vanilla wafers, you have the whole box.

Eating constitutes the greatest obstacle to self-control; it gives rise to indolence.

Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food.

Gluttony is wrong. It's wasteful.

I was not created to be occupied by eating delicious foods like tied up cattle.

I can eat two large pizzas and a tray of brownies in one sitting. I'm not sharing that. We can get another one, but I ain't sharing.

I usually take the first batch of some ice cream, eat it, and then about an hour later, at halftime of the Sunday night game, I go after a second serving. So I pretty much get a whole gallon of ice cream Sunday night. It's pretty bad.

Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving.

The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.

I eat like seven men together.

I've got more chins than a San Francisco phonebook.

My life just got taken over by my cooking. If you don't have any discipline, which I don't, you can make 10 gallons of chocolate mousse, take a spoonful and another and another, and you won't realize you've eaten like five servings of it. It's just what you do.

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

Hunger and self-control do not go hand in hand.

Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.

We never repent of having eaten too little.

I am a gourmand. I like to eat. When I have something that I like, I tend to have too much of it. That is a guilty pleasure.

There are two types of people in this world: one who opens a packet of biscuits, has one and puts the rest back in the cupboard, and one who eats the whole packet in one go.

I am a greedy actor in the sense that I like the big bites. Put a big fat steak in front of me, and I will eat it.