quotations about appetite
Keen appetite and quick digestion wait on you and yours.
JOHN DRYDEN
Cleomenes
Epicurean cooks
Sharpen with cloyless sauce his appetite.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Antony and Cleopatra
Some people have food, but no appetite; others have appetite, but no food. I have both. The Lord be praised.
OLIVER CROMWELL
attributed, Grace
If thou rise with an appetite, thou art sure never to sit down without one.
WILLIAM PENN
Fruits of Solitude
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
What matters is hunger. Appetite. In this way I have become what I behold.
BENJAMIN PERCY
Red Moon
What is nourishment to a hungry man becomes a burden to a full stomach.
SENECA
Epistulae ad Lucilium
The best way to improve your appetite is to go on a diet.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
To make our appetites more keen,
With eager compounds we our palates urge.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Sonnets
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
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
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
I have no wish to waste my appetite.
MARTIAL
Epigrams
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
There never lived a mortal man who bent
His appetite beyond his natural sphere,
But starved and died.
JOHN KEATS
Endymion
The indulgence of our lives
Has cast a shadow on our world
Our devotion to our appetites
Betrayed us all
DISTURBED
"Another Way to Die", Asylum
That heavenly food, which gives new appetite.
DANTE ALIGHIERI
Purgatorio
The best things beyond their measure cloy.
HOMER
The Iliad
I find no abhorring in mine appetite.
JOHN DONNE
Devotions
A mortified appetite is never a wise companion.
R.L. STEVENSON
Ethical Studies