Quote by Elbert Hubbard
A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourma

A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who lives well. – Elbert Hubbard

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It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do. – Elbert Hubbard

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Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things. – Elbert Hubbard

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One meal a day is enough for a lion, and it ought to be for a man. – George Fordyce

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

Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression. – Marshall McLuhan

The obese is in a total delirium. For he is not only large, of a size opposed to normal morphology: he is larger than large. He no longer makes sense in some distinctive opposition, but in his excess, his redundancy. – Jean Baudrillard

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So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent. – Henry George, Progress and Poverty, 1879

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Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment. – Bret Easton Ellis

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The most dangerous people are the ignorant. – Henry Ward Beecher

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