quotations about appetite
An appetite is like love. Its dangers are exaggerated and seldom fatal.
PHILIP HAMILTON GIBBS
People of Destiny
A bit o' bread's what I like from one year's end to the other; but men's stomachs are made so comical, they want a change--they do, I know, God help 'em.
GEORGE ELIOT
Silas Marner
The job of taste was to thin the insane torrent of human creativity down to manageable levels. But the job of appetite was never to be happy with taste.
RICHARD POWERS
Orfeo
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
CHARLES DICKENS
Nicholas Nickleby
I never trust people with no appetite. It's like they're always holding something back on you.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
I have made this pact and covenant with my appetite, that it always lieth down and goes to bed with myself, then the next morning it also riseth with me, and gets up when I am awake.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS
Works
A stomach that is seldom empty despises common food.
HORACE
Satires
The sweetest honey
Is loathsome in its own deliciousness,
And in the taste confounds the appetite.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Romeo and Juliet
What is nourishment to a hungry man becomes a burden to a full stomach.
SENECA
Epistulae ad Lucilium
And their appetite's
Careless and menacing
It humbles me
When prey softly
Outwits its predator
Such is a sight to see
INCUBUS
"While All the Vultures Feed"
Lo, here hath lust his domination,
And appetite flemeth discretion.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
The Canterbury Tales
That which is not good is not delicious
To a well-governed and wise appetite.
JOHN MILTON
Comus
Appetite is just like oil for an engine. Without oil, the motor does not move. However, oiling must be watched over by a controller. This latter is our supreme judgment, not a lower judgment, like sensorial, sentimental, intellectual, social, or ideological fancies.
GEORGE OHSAWA
Philosophy of Oriental Medicine
There be those that make it their glory to feed high, and fare deliciously every day, and to maintain their bodies elementary, search the elements, the earth, the sea, and air, to maintain the fire of their appetites.
FRANCIS QUARLES & ARTHUR WARWICK
Enchiridion Miscellaneum
What one relishes, nourishes.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1734
I have no wish to waste my appetite.
MARTIAL
Epigrams
Why, she would hang on him
As if increase of appetite had grown
By what it fed on.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Hamlet
If thou rise with an appetite, thou art sure never to sit down without one.
WILLIAM PENN
Fruits of Solitude
Now good digestion wait on appetite,
And health on both!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Macbeth
A person's needs are met, and his appetite subsides. A person's wants are met, and his thirst swells greedily without end.
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH
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