John Steinbeck Quotes

I talk too much. I eat too much.

Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time.

Glutton- A person who escapes the evils of moderation by committing dyspepsia.

Sooner or later even the most ambitious glutton must crawl away and seek the solace of the vomitorium.

Gluttony is mankind's exclusive prerogative.

Once munching has begun, Schopenhauer held, the human will cannot resist further munching, and the result is a universe with crumbs over everything.

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.

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.

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.

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

I was logging 15-hour days, sampling food every minute. I had access to these amazing dishes, and it was easy to lose sight of how quickly the bites added up.

Gluttony is wrong. It's wasteful.

From abundance springs satiety.

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

I will normally eat about seven or eight mince pies in one sitting. Sometimes, I can get to double figures. My friends, and probably most people, stop at two, so they probably dislike me a bit for it.

I can't do anything in moderation.

I used to go to Haagen-Dazs and order three banana splits at a time!

The most I ever ate? In one sitting? Maybe four big plates of fried chicken, biscuits, chitlins, gravy. Then dessert. Apple pie, sweet potato pie. My mother cooked that stuff, good Southern food, and when I was 300 pounds, I never missed a meal.

I used to eat, like, a whole Entenmann's cake at one time with a half-gallon of milk.

I'd eat bowls of soft-serve ice cream until I felt sick.

I eat two breakfasts, two lunches, and two dinners throughout the day. It's always eating.

As a kid, I'd eat at my mother's house, then go down the road to my girlfriend's and eat, and then sometimes go to my friend's house and eat again. I could gain five pounds in a day. In a week, there wouldn't be a scale to weigh me.

We had a delicious dinner of too much.

Eating a little was like vomiting a little, just as bad as a lot.

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