Appetite Quotes - Page 17

• A man ought to inquire and find out what he really and truly has an appetite for; what suits his constitution; and that, doctors tell him, is the very thing he ought to have in general. And so with books.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Book, Men, Doctors

  Thomas Carlyle (1866). “On the choice of books: the inaugural address of Thomas Carlyle”, p.57

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• A fastidious taste is like a squeamish appetite; the one has its origin in some disease of the mind, as the other has in some ailment of the stomach.

  Robert Southey

  Mind, Disease, Taste

  Robert Southey (1865). “The Doctor, Etc”, p.42

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• There are some readers who have never read an essay on taste; and if they take my advice they never will, for they can no more improve their taste by so doing than they could improve their appetite or digestion by studying a cookery-book.

  Robert Southey

  Book, Advice, Digestion

  Robert Southey (1865). “The Doctor, Etc”, p.99

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• Going through life without love is like going through a good dinner without an appetite -- everything seems so flat and tasteless.

  Helen Rowland

  Love Is, Dinner, Life Without Love

  Helen Rowland (1909). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”

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• What real good does an addition to a fortune already sufficient procure? Not any. Could the great man, by having his fortune increased, increase also his appetites, then precedence might be attended with real amusement.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Real, Men, Might

  Oliver Goldsmith (1856). “The Miscellaneous Works: Letters from a citizen of the world, to his friend in the East. A familiar introduction to the study of natural history”, p.269

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• Go to your banquet then, but use delight
  So as to rise still with an appetite.

  Robert Herrick

  Use, Delight, Eating

  Robert Herrick (1869). “Hesperides: The Poems and Other Remains of Robert Herrick Now First Collected”, p.236

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• Adult bats don't weigh much. They're mainly fur and appetite.

  Diane Ackerman

  Bats, Adults, Fur

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “Moon By Whale Light: And Other Adventures Among Bats,Penguins, Crocodilians, and Whales”, p.18, Vintage

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• Curiosity is the most superficial of all the affections; it changes its object perpetually; it has an appetite which is very sharp, but very easily satisfied, and it has always an appearance of giddiness, restlessness and anxiety.

  Edmund Burke

  Anxiety, Curiosity, Affection

  Edmund Burke (1824). “A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, p.24

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• The best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.

  Socrates

  Hunger, Drink, Thirst

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• Salt represents the civilized: it requires know-how to get it, and a sophisticated combination of cooking and spoilt, jaded appetites to need it.

  Margaret Visser

  Cooking, Needs, Salt

  Margaret Visser (2010). “Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Mea”, p.76, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Sex, Satisfaction, Collecting

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1997). “An Accidental Autobiography”, Mariner Books

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• A man who has tasted with profound enjoyment the pleasure of agreeable society will eat with a greater appetite than he who rode horseback for two hours. An amusing lecture is as useful for health as the exercise of the body.

  Immanuel Kant

  Exercise, Men, Two

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• In order that knowledge be properly digested it must have been swallowed with a good appetite.

  Anatole France

  Order, Has Beens

  Anatole France (2016). “The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard”, p.119, Anatole France

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• A person has to get fed up with the ways of the world before he, before she acquires an appetite for the world of grace.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Grace, World, Way

  Eugene H. Peterson (2012). “A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society”, p.25, InterVarsity Press

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• This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg. It took me till noon to get my appetite back.

  Langston Hughes

  Morning, Eggs, Two

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• Epithets, like pepper, Give zest to what you write; And if you strew them sparely, They whet the appetite: But if you lay them on too thick, You spoil the matter quite!

  Lewis Carroll

  Writing, Zest, Giving

  Lewis Carroll (2001). “Jabberwocky and Other Poems”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• I ate 'umble pie with an appetite.

  Charles Dickens

  Humility, Pie

  Charles Dickens (1866). “Works of Charles Dickens: The Pickwick papers”, p.143

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• Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us, and invites us to them, not only by Reason, but also by Appetite: and ’tis Injustice to infringe her Laws.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Nature, Law, Action

  Michel de Montaigne (1947). “Essays of Michel de Montaigne”

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• Commercial society regards people as bundles of appetites, a conception that turns human beings inside out, leaving nothing to be regarded as inherently private.

  George Will

  People, Leaving, Privacy

  George F. Will (1978). “The pursuit of happiness, and other sobering thoughts”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I try to feed my hunger rather than my appetite.

  Ginger Rogers

  Trying, Hunger

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• When humans act like animals, they become the most dangerous of animals to themselves and other humans, and this is because of another critical difference between humans and animals: Whereas animals are usually restrained by the limits of physical appetites, humans have mental appetites that can be far more gross and capacious than physical ones. Only humans squander and hoard, murder and pillage because of notions.

  Wendell Berry

  Animal, Differences, Limits

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• Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.

  Andre Gide

  People, Age, Woe

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.101, Routledge

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• Eating highly seasoned food is unhealthful, because it stimulates too much, provokes the appetite too much, and often is indigestible.

  Catharine Beecher

  Food, Often Is, Cooking

  Catharine Beecher (2013). “Miss Beecher's Domestic Receipt-Book”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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• At whatever time highly skilled physicians shall have developed the healing of illnesses by means of foods, and shall make provision for simple foods, and shall prohibit humankind from living as slaves to their lustful appetites, it is certain that the incidence of chronic and diversified illnesses will abate, and the general health of all mankind will be much improved. This is destined to come about. In the same way, in the character, the conduct and the manners of men, universal modifications will be made.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Healing, Character, Mean

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• The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied.

  Francois Fenelon

  Art, Want, Rendering

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