Ali ibn Abi Talib Quotes

Gluttony is not a secret vice.

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

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

I hate exercising self-control.

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

Gluttony is wrong. It's wasteful.

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.

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.

I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse.

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

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.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.'

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

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.

The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.

Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.

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

A man must fortify himself and understand that a wise man who yields to laziness or anger or passion or love of drink, or who commits any other action prompted by impulse and inopportune, will probably find his fault condoned; but if he stoops to greed, he will not be pardoned, but render himself odious as a combination of all vices at once.

Why resist temptation? There will always be more.

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.

No one is free who does not lord over himself.

I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.

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.