APPETITE QUOTES III

quotations about appetite

Keen appetite and quick digestion wait on you and yours.

JOHN DRYDEN

Cleomenes


What matters is hunger. Appetite. In this way I have become what I behold.

BENJAMIN PERCY

Red Moon


That which is not good is not delicious
To a well-governed and wise appetite.

JOHN MILTON

Comus


There never lived a mortal man who bent
His appetite beyond his natural sphere,
But starved and died.

JOHN KEATS

Endymion


Poor wretches, do you not know that your appetites are bigger than your bellies?

SENECA

Epistulae ad Lucilium


The surest way in feeding is to leave with an appetite.

THOMAS COGAN

Haven of Health


Now good digestion wait on appetite,
And health on both!

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Macbeth


I have no wish to waste my appetite.

MARTIAL

Epigrams


Some people have food, but no appetite; others have appetite, but no food. I have both. The Lord be praised.

OLIVER CROMWELL

attributed, Grace


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


The best way to improve your appetite is to go on a diet.

EVAN ESAR

20,000 Quips & Quotes


Your appetite is just a desire for food or drink. That sounds so simple, right? Yes, it is pretty simple. That is until you started allowing it to run around with all of those other appeasers that reside right alongside of it in the one-fourth zone above your neck.

JOYCE ANN IVEY

Divorcing Unhealthy Foods


Epicurean cooks
Sharpen with cloyless sauce his appetite.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Antony and Cleopatra


I find no abhorring in mine appetite.

JOHN DONNE

Devotions


Your greedy gluttonous lustful appetite!
Out of the very toughest bones they beat
The marrow, since they will throw nothing out
That may slip down the gullet sweet and smooth.

GEOFFREY CHAUCER

The Canterbury Tales


To make our appetites more keen,
With eager compounds we our palates urge.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Sonnets


The best things beyond their measure cloy.

HOMER

The Iliad


Short are his meals, and homely is his fare;
His thirst he slakes at some pure neighbouring brook,
Nor asks for sauce where appetite stands cook.

CHARLES CHURCHILL

Gotham


That heavenly food, which gives new appetite.

DANTE ALIGHIERI

Purgatorio


Hear I the blatant appetite demand
Due sustenance, and with a voice that drowns
E'en all my suff'rings, till itself be fill'd.

HOMER

The Odyssey