quotations about appetite
An appetite is like love. Its dangers are exaggerated and seldom fatal.
PHILIP HAMILTON GIBBS
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People of Destiny
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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
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Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
CHARLES DICKENS
Nicholas Nickleby
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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
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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
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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
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The sweetest honey
Is loathsome in its own deliciousness,
And in the taste confounds the appetite.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Romeo and Juliet
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A stomach that is seldom empty despises common food.
HORACE
Satires
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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"
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I have no wish to waste my appetite.
MARTIAL
Epigrams
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What is nourishment to a hungry man becomes a burden to a full stomach.
SENECA
Epistulae ad Lucilium
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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
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Lo, here hath lust his domination,
And appetite flemeth discretion.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
The Canterbury Tales
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That which is not good is not delicious
To a well-governed and wise appetite.
JOHN MILTON
Comus
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What one relishes, nourishes.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1734
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If thou rise with an appetite, thou art sure never to sit down without one.
WILLIAM PENN
Fruits of Solitude
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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
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What matters is hunger. Appetite. In this way I have become what I behold.
BENJAMIN PERCY
Red Moon
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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
Smile Anyway
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Why, she would hang on him
As if increase of appetite had grown
By what it fed on.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Hamlet
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