A Quote by Ambrose Bierce

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

Ambrose Bierce

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Ambrose Bierce
American - Journalist
June 24, 1842 - 1914

There are two things in life that a sage must preserve at every sacrifice, the coats of his stomach and the enamel of his teeth. Some evils admit of consolations, but there are no comforters for dyspepsia and the toothache.

Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer

Moderation in all things. And even moderation in moderation. Don't get too much moderation, you know?

Maya Angelou

If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron.

Spider Robinson

Keep to the middle if you wish to keep moderation. The mid way is the safe way. Moderation abides in the mean, and moderation is virtue. Every abiding place outside the bounds of moderation is only exile to the wise man.

Saint Bernard

If you must be a glutton, be a glutton for work.

Charles M. Schwab

How many serious family quarrels, marriages out of spite, and alterations of wills, might have been prevented by a gentle dose of blue pill!-What awful instances of chronic dyspepsia in the characters of Hamlet and Othello! Banish dyspepsia and spirituous liquors from society, and you have no crime, or at least so little that you would not consider it worth mentioning.

Charles Kingsley

The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Everyone talks about moderation. How about some moderation in moderation?

Ashwin Sanghi

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils, but present evils triumph over it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Gluttony is a great fault; but we do not necessarily dislike a glutton. We only dislike the glutton when he becomes a gourmet-that is, we only dislike him when he not only wants the best for himself, but knows what is best for other people.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

By committing the scientific method to religious claims you're committing a logical fallacy

Francis Collins

Moderation is the only rule of a healthful life. This means moderation in all things wholesome.

Herbert M. Shelton

A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.

Donald Trump

The second class of evils comprises such evils as people cause to each other, when, e.g. , some of them use their strength against others. These evils are more numerous than those of the first kind... they likewise originate in ourselves, though the sufferer himself cannot avert them.