Appetite Quotes

The appetite grows for what it feeds on.

When secularization has had its full sway, it will leave a generation devoid of shame. And if you show me a generation that lacks shame, I will show you a generation that is monstrous in its appetite... never satisfied.

I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.

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

We all have hometown appetites.

What is more refreshing than salads when your appetite seems to have deserted you, or even after a capacious dinner — the nice, fresh, green, and crisp salad, full of life and health, which seems to invigorate the, palate and dispose the masticating powers to a much longer duration.

I have a wonderfully hedonistic appetite, and if I wasn't really strict with myself, I'd weigh 300 pounds. I'm not good with moderation.

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

... privation is the source of appetite.

My soul tasted that heavenly food, which gives new appetite while it satiates.

Stop short of your appetite; eat less than you are able.

Good cheer is no hindrance to a good life.

What you feed your mind determines your appetite.

The appetite is sharpened by the first bites.

I have an appetite for silence.

The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness.

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

When I think about fashion I think women will never lose that appetite for fashion.

It is unnatural for a Christian not to have an appetite for the impossible.

Let not our longing slay the appetite of our living.

The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.

I have a healthy appetite for solitude. If you don't, you have no business being a writer.

Tyranny knows no restraint of appetite.

Trash has given us an appetite for art.

The British press has an insatiable appetite for making public things that should be private. It's a prurience that I've never understood.

In our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it is our ideals we have consumed, and we have not been enlarged by the feasts but only diminished.

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

Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.

...appetite turns common food into the fare of kings.

The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.

Furthermore I will just have to see what the future will bring me. But a change of food whets the appetite.

Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.

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

I try to feed my hunger rather than my appetite.

The persistent appetite for human beings for community is what we should all be dedicated to.

Do not blame the food because you have no appetite.

If you feed an appetite, it grows. Satisfying an appetite does not diminish it. It expands it. To diminish an appetite, you have to starve it.

Listen to some good poetry. You see? It keeps us from thinking we are only what our blatant appetites describe us as.

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

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

Turtle makes all men equal.

Sexual appetite, like any other appetite, grows by indulgence

I am pleased to tell you that he is finally getting some rest and is regaining his appetite as well.

No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

I've got a pretty good appetite right now.

Illness isn't the only thing that spoils the appetite.

I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.

Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.

My appetite comes to me while eating.

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.