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
There's no stomach a hand's breadth bigger than another.
CERVANTES
Don Quixote
APPETITE, n. An instinct thoughtfully implanted by Providence as a solution to the labor question.
AMBROSE BIERCE
The Devil's Dictionary
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
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
And gazed around them to the left and right,
With the prophetic eye of appetite.
LORD BYRON
Don Juan
Their hearts and sentiments were free, their appetites were hearty.
ROBERT BUCHANAN
City of the Saints
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
'Tis not the meat, but 'tis the appetite
Makes eating a delight.
JOHN SUCKLING
Of Thee, Kind Boy
Poor men want meat for their stomachs, rich men stomachs for their meat.
ANTHONY COPLEY
Wits, Fits, etc.
And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
KING SOLOMON
Proverbs 23:2
Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin
Surprise thee, and her black attendant, Death.
JOHN MILTON
Paradise Lost
Let the appetites be subject to reason.
CICERO
De Officiis
Who riseth from a feast
With that keen appetite that he sits down?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The Merchant of Venice
Satisfy all appetites
As they arise
This is your hell
DARKANE
"The Fear of One's Self"
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
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
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