A Quote by David Mitchell

An idler and a sluggard are as different as a gourmand and a glutton.

David Mitchell

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David Mitchell
English - Novelist
Born: January 12, 1969

After eating, an epicure gives a thin smile of satisfaction; a gastronome, burping into his napkin, praises the food in a magazine; a gourmet, repressing his burp, criticizes the food in the same magazine; a gourmand belches happily and tells everybody where he ate; a glutton empraces the white porcelain alter, or more plainly, he barfs.

William Safire

The difference between a gourmet and a gourmand we take to be this: a gourmet is he who selects, for his nice and learned delectation, the most choice delicacies, prepared in the most scientific manner; whereas the gourmand bears a closer analogy to that class of great eaters ill-naturedly (we dare say) denominated, or classed with, aldermen.

Abraham Hayward

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

Charles M. Schwab

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

The sluggard is a living insensible.

Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

I really like hamburgers and French fries, and I don't consider myself some kind of gourmand.

Eric Schlosser

Sloth is the torpidity of the mental faculties; the sluggard is a living insensible.

Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Tomorrow is always the sluggard's working day; today is his holiday

Richard Baxter

The faster you go, the idler you get.

Ferreira Gullar

Every man is, or hopes to be, an idler.

Samuel Johnson

I feel really lucky that I somehow have blagged my way into loads of different experiences. I find making a film fascinating, I find making a play amazing, and working with my band and scoring things... it's all really cool. I'm just a glutton for experience, really.

Johnny Flynn

When I pretended to be precocious, people started the rumor that I was precocious. When I acted like an idler, rumor had it I was an idler. When I pretended I couldn't write a novel, people said I couldn't write. When I acted like a liar, they called me a liar. When I acted like a rich man, they started the rumor I was rich. When I feigned indifference, they classed me as the indifferent type. But when I inadvertently groaned because I was really in pain, they started the rumor that I was faking suffering. The world is out of joint.