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 is nourishment to a hungry man becomes a burden to a full stomach.
SENECA
Epistulae ad Lucilium
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
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
What one relishes, nourishes.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1734
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
Lo, here hath lust his domination,
And appetite flemeth discretion.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
The Canterbury Tales
New dishes beget new appetites.
THOMAS FULLER
GNOMOLOGIA
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
Seek an appetite by hard toil.
HORACE
Satires
If thou rise with an appetite, thou art sure never to sit down without one.
WILLIAM PENN
Fruits of Solitude
The indulgence of our lives
Has cast a shadow on our world
Our devotion to our appetites
Betrayed us all
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