APPETITE QUOTES

quotations about appetite

Doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Much Ado About Nothing


APPETITE, n. An instinct thoughtfully implanted by Providence as a solution to the labor question.

AMBROSE BIERCE

The Devil's Dictionary


There's no stomach a hand's breadth bigger than another.

CERVANTES

Don Quixote


Show me a man who cannot control his appetites, and I will show a man living under a death sentence.

RICK YANCEY

The Isle of Blood


And gazed around them to the left and right,
With the prophetic eye of appetite.

LORD BYRON

Don Juan


Appetite has really become an artificial and abnormal thing, having taken the place of true hunger, which alone is natural. The one is a sign of bondage but the other, of freedom.

PAUL BRUNTON

The Notebooks of Paul Brunton


'Tis not the meat, but 'tis the appetite
Makes eating a delight.

JOHN SUCKLING

Of Thee, Kind Boy


Hunger is like the rosy hue upon the cheek of the healthy child -- Appetite is like the rouged face of the woman of fashion.

YOGI RAMACHARAKA

Hatha Yoga; Or, the Yogi Philosophy of Physical Well-Being


Their hearts and sentiments were free, their appetites were hearty.

ROBERT BUCHANAN

City of the Saints


Poor men want meat for their stomachs, rich men stomachs for their meat.

ANTHONY COPLEY

Wits, Fits, etc.


Our appetites, of one or another kind, are an excellent spur to our reason, which might otherwise but feebly set about the great ends of preserving and continuing the species.

CHARLES LAMB

attributed, Day's Collacon


Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin
Surprise thee, and her black attendant, Death.

JOHN MILTON

Paradise Lost


Who riseth from a feast
With that keen appetite that he sits down?

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

The Merchant of Venice


Let the appetites be subject to reason.

CICERO

De Officiis


And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.

KING SOLOMON

Proverbs 23:2


In fact, I suspect ... that the primary, underlying striving among many women at the start of the millennium is the appetite for appetite: a longing to feel safe and secure enough to name one's true appetites and worthy and powerful enough to get them satisfied.

CAROLINE KNAPP

Appetites: Why Women Want


Satisfy all appetites
As they arise
This is your hell

DARKANE

"The Fear of One's Self"


O appetite, from judgment stand aloof!
The one a palate hath that needs will taste,
Though Reason weep, and cry--It is thy last.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

A Lover's Complaint


With full good will they all fell to,
And sought no other sauce thereto
Than appetite.

JOHN BARBOUR

Bruce


The youth who follows his appetites too soon, seizes the cup before it has received its best ingredients, and by anticipating his pleasures, robs the remaining parts of his life of their share, so that his eagerness only produces a manhood of imbecility and an age of pain.

OLIVER GOLDSMITH

A History of the Earth and Animated Nature