APPETITE QUOTES II

quotations about appetite

An appetite is like love. Its dangers are exaggerated and seldom fatal.

PHILIP HAMILTON GIBBS

People of Destiny


Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.

CHARLES DICKENS

Nicholas Nickleby


The sweetest honey
Is loathsome in its own deliciousness,
And in the taste confounds the appetite.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Romeo and Juliet


Why, she would hang on him
As if increase of appetite had grown
By what it fed on.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Hamlet


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


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


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"


A stomach that is seldom empty despises common food.

HORACE

Satires


Go to your banquet, then, but use delight,
So as to rise still with an appetite.

ROBERT HERRICK

Hesperides


What one relishes, nourishes.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Poor Richard's Almanack, 1734


What is nourishment to a hungry man becomes a burden to a full stomach.

SENECA

Epistulae ad Lucilium


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


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


Lo, here hath lust his domination,
And appetite flemeth discretion.

GEOFFREY CHAUCER

The Canterbury Tales


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


New dishes beget new appetites.

THOMAS FULLER

GNOMOLOGIA


Seek an appetite by hard toil.

HORACE

Satires


The indulgence of our lives
Has cast a shadow on our world
Our devotion to our appetites
Betrayed us all

DISTURBED

"Another Way to Die", Asylum


If thou rise with an appetite, thou art sure never to sit down without one.

WILLIAM PENN

Fruits of Solitude