Appetite Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.

  Joseph Addison

  Lust, Literature, Firsts

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.156

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• A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Food, Health, Animal

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1911). “The novels and other works of Lyof N. Tolstoï”

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• It has long been known for sure that the sight of tasty food makes a hungry man's mouth water; also lack of appetite has always been regarded as an undesirable phenomenon, from which one might conclude that appetite is essentially linked with the process of digestion.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Men, Sight, Long

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• A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.

  Christopher Lasch

  Children, Lying, Desire

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• Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Health, Meat, Sugar

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.166, Harvard University Press

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• I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Abnormal, Wells, Normal

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• As we become purer channels for God's light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be.

  Marianne Williamson

  Fighting, Light, Creating

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• Hunger is never delicate.

  Samuel Johnson

  Food, Cooking, Hunger

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.163

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• Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

  Jonathan Swift

  Literature, Poison, Beast

  Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1824). “The Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing Additional Letters, Tracts, and Poems Not Hitherto Published; with Notes, and a Life of the Author”, p.251

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• Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.

  Khalil Gibran

  War, Passion, Soul

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health and our happiness. Our enemies would dance with joy if only they knew how they were worrying us, lacerating us, and getting even with us! Our hate is not hurting them at al, but our hate is turning our days and nights into a hellish turmoil.

  Dale Carnegie

  Life, Inspiring, Forgiveness

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How to Stop Worrying and Start Living”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.

  George Eliot

  Marriage, Order, May

  'Middlemarch' (1871-2) bk. 1, ch. 9

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• The other two things are... well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees, and the more romantic the better.

  Ewan McGregor

  Romantic, Running, Black And White

  Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2002.

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• I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Suicide, Men, Looks

  Lord Chesterfield (2008). “The Modern Chesterfield”, p.233, Wildside Press LLC

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• God Almighty is, to be sure, unmoved by passion or appetite, unchanged by affection; but then it is to be added that He neither sees nor hears nor perceives things by any senses like ours; but in a manner infinitely more perfect.

  Joseph Butler

  Passion, Perfect, Affection

  Joseph Butler (2012). “Human Nature and other Sermons”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.

  John Woolman

  Strong, Men, Understanding

  John Woolman (2013). “journal”, p.49, Lulu.com

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• Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Funny, Class, Two

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1902). “The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort”

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• Tis not the meat, but 'tis the appetite makes eating a delight.

  John Suckling

  Food, Delight, Meat

  c.1638 Sonnet no.2.

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• I was taught a lot of Bible at home and had a voracious appetite for reading the Bible.

  Amy Grant

  Reading, Home, Taught

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• In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.

  Marianne Williamson

  Power, World, Illusion

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “A Woman's Worth”, p.7, Ballantine Books

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• America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  America, World, Today

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2010). “Gift from the Sea”, p.124, Random House

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• Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Hair, Worry, Pulse

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• Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beauty, Apathy, Satisfaction

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• Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Wisdom, Color

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

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