Appetite Quotes

• Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

  Charles Dickens

  Food, Human Nature, Abstinence

  Nicholas Nickleby ch. 5 (1839)

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• Satan like a fisher, baits his hook according to the appetite of the fish.

  Thomas Adams

  Bait, Hook, Satan

  Thomas Adams, James Sherman (1848). “An Exposition Upon the Second Epistle General of St. Peter”, p.236

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• The appetite for power is old and irrepressible in humankind, and in its action almost always destructive.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Power, Action, Irrepressible

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “The First Salute: A View of the American Revolution”, p.65, Random House

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• I have pains in my hearts, they have taken my appetite.

  Robert Johnson

  Pain, Taken, Heart

  Song: Stones In My Passway

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• All things require skill but an appetite.

  George Herbert

  Food, Skills, All Things

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.303

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• These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness And in the taste confounds the appetite. Therefore love moderately; long love doth so; Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Fire, Long

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.149, Classic Books Company

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• Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.

  Marquis de Sade

  Love, Life, Sex

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• Worship does not satisfy our hunger for God; it whets our appetite.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Doe, Worship, Hunger

  Eugene H. Peterson (2012). “A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society”, p.56, InterVarsity Press

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• Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Two, Physicians

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• Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.

  Quintilian

  Life, Food, Mind

  Quintilian (1805). “Quinctilian's Institutes of Eloquence: Or, The Art of Speaking in Public, in Every Character and Capacity”, p.59

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• Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.

  William Ruckelshaus

  Nature, Lunch, Pollution Control

  Business Week, June 18, 1990.

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• There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.

  Paul Gauguin

  Fashion, Art, Clothes

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  John Milton

  Food, Cooking, Black

  John Milton (1869). “Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books”, p.217

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• Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Work, Food, Inspiration

  Igor Stravinsky “An Autobiography”, Library of Alexandria

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• A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

  Ronald Knox

  Funny, Mom, Baby

  Definition of a baby (attributed)

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• Trash has given us an appetite for art.

  Pauline Kael

  Art, Trash, Given

  Pauline Kael (1970). “Going Steady: Film Writings, 1968-1969”, Marion Boyars

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• Now, good digestion wait on appetite, and health on both!

  William Shakespeare

  Waiting, Digestion, Good Digestion

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 4, l. 38

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• Appetite, craving for food, is a constant and powerful stimulator of the gastric glands.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Powerful, Adrenal Glands, Constant

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• We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Ambition, Wealth, Prosperity

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• Appetite comes with eating.

  Francois Rabelais

  Food, Cooking, Desire

  Francois Rabelais (2014). “Gargantua and Pantagruel”, p.22, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood.

  Robin G. Collingwood

  Desire, Purpose, Parenthood

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• Reason should direct, and appetite obey.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Discipline, Reason, Should

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1855). “Cicero's Three books of offices, or moral duties: also his Cato Major, an essay on old age; Lælius, an essay on friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's dream; and Letter to Quintus on the duties of a magistrate”, p.52

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• I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.

  Lord Byron

  Hilarious, Being Alone, Appetite For Life

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• Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Men, Needs, Torture

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• If music be the food of love, play on.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Inspirational, Romantic

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

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