Quotes and Sayings about Appetite
"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
(Related: First, Hunger, Lust)
"You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well."
- Samuel Alexander
(Related: Appetite, Desire, Personality, Self)
"Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain."
- Diane Arbus
(Related: Change, Men, Growth, Children)
"I was gaining weight very rapidly and read about the idea of restricting carbohydrates as an alternative to going hungry. I had a big appetite, so that was the only thing I would even consider."
- Robert Atkins
(Related: Idea, Appetite, Weight)
"It is true I gained muscular vigour, but with it a prodigious appetite, which I was compelled to indulge, and consequently increased in weight, until my kind old friend advised me to forsake the exercise."
- William Banting
(Related: Friend, Appetite, Exercise, Old, Weight)
"To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that."
- John Barton
(Related: Appetite, Beginnings, Poems, Want)
"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
(Related: Beauty, Appetite, Satisfaction)
"Furthermore I will just have to see what the future will bring me. But a change of food whets the appetite."
- Jonathan Brandis
(Related: Change, Food, Appetite, Future, Will)
"One sits the whole day at the desk and appetite is standing next to me. "Away with you," I say. But Comrade Appetite does not budge from the spot."
- Leonid I. Brezhnev
(Related: Appetite, Day)
"So that would be a classic mixed message to young women: you should look a certain way that's going to destroy your reproductive system and your sexual appetite, but at the same time, you should be interested in sex!"
- Susie Bright
(Related: Time, Appetite)
"I have learned that you can't have good advertising without a good client, that you can't keep a good client without good advertising, and no client will ever buy better advertising than he understands or has an appetite for."
- Leo Burnett
(Related: Advertising, Appetite, Will)
"Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects."
- Joseph Butler
(Related: Happiness, Desire, Man, Variety)
"The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested or disinterested, because the objects of them all are equally self or somewhat else."
- Joseph Butler
(Related: Heart, Affection, Appetite, Self, Sense)
"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
(Related: God, Affection, Appetite, Passion, Senses)
"The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone; therefore the appetites and passions are placed within as a guard and further security, without which it would not be taken due care of."
- Joseph Butler
(Related: Care, Interest, Security, Self)
"Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections."
- Joseph Butler
(Related: Happiness, Nature, Enjoyment, Satisfaction)
"I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone."
- Lord Byron
(Related: Appetite, Being)
"Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners."
- Nicolas De Chamfort
(Related: Society, Appetite)
"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
(Related: Indolence, Man, May, Suicide)
"Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment."
- Emile M. Cioran
(Related: Men, Accomplishment, Appetite)
"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
(Related: Purpose, Appetite, Desire, Intention, Parenthood, Will)
"A boy's appetite grows very fast, and in a few moments the queer, empty feeling had become hunger, and the hunger grew bigger and bigger, until soon he was as ravenous as a bear."
- Carlo Collodi
(Related: Appetite, Feeling, Hunger, Moments)
"Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger."
- Bill Cosby
(Related: Work, Appetite, Danger, Man, Today)
"Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature."
- Charles Dickens
(Related: Nature, Human nature)
"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
(Related: God, Appetite, Hair, Worry)
"Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end."
- Tryon Edwards
(Related: Death, Appetite, End, Forbidden, May)
"LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites."
- Henry Fielding
(Related: Food, Delight, Favorite, Word)
"Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature ."
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
(Related: Nature, Human nature)
"There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite."
- Paul Gauguin
(Related: Appetite, Mediocrity, Taste)
"The Hussein regime's support for terrorism, within and outside of its borders, its appetite for the world's most dangerous weapons, and its openly declared hostility to the United States were a combination that was a gathering and growing danger to our country."
- Jim Gerlach
(Related: Appetite, Country, Danger, states, Support, Terrorism, United, Weapons, World)
"I've got a pretty good appetite right now."
- Tracey Gold
(Related: Appetite, Now, Pretty, Right)
"I was taught a lot of Bible at home and had a voracious appetite for reading the Bible."
- Amy Grant
(Related: Home, Bible, Appetite, Reading)
"Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one."
- Horace Greeley
(Related: Appetite, Will)
"I am pleased to tell you that he is finally getting some rest and is regaining his appetite as well."
- LaToya Jackson
(Related: Appetite, Rest)
"I get bored very easily. I have a voracious appetite and I do not feel alive if I'm repeating something I'm good at. So I'm always looking for new challenges."
- Jewel
(Related: Appetite)
"Trash has given us an appetite for art."
- Pauline Kael
(Related: Art, Appetite)
"People think that if you have a huge appetite, then you'll be better at it. But actually, it's how you confront the food that is brought to you. You have to be mentally and psychologically prepared."
- Takeru Kobayashi
(Related: Food, People, Appetite)
"Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much of the same."
- Steve Lacy
(Related: Appetite, Losing, Play, Risk)
"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
(Related: Lie, Appetite, Desire, Ownership, Possessions)
"The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a new one in its place."
- Christopher Lasch
(Related: Appetite, Jaded, News)
"I think maybe when you live with someone who is really very ill for a long time, it somehow gives you more of a greedy appetite for life and maybe, yes, you are less measured in your behaviour than you would otherwise be."
- Nigella Lawson
(Related: Life, Time, Appetite)
"Aspiring to a souffle, he achieves a pancake at which the reader saws without much appetite."
- John Leonard
(Related: Appetite)
"Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age."
- Giacomo Leopardi
(Related: Age, Death, Men, Fear, Desire, Evil, Man, Old, Sorrow)
"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
(Related: America, Appetite, Future, Present, Today, World)
"Comedians still make fun of Bill's out-of-control appetites, but with Hillary, the mockery is about how she lets nothing be out of control."
- Rich Lowry
(Related: Control, Comedians, Fun, Nothing)
"I think there is something for all of us where you find a balance in your life, where you feel that everything you do isn't about your own creature comforts or satisfying your own appetites. Some of it has to be directed outward and there is a huge satisfaction in that."
- Wendie Malick
(Related: Life, Balance, Satisfaction)
"An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life."
- Jose Marti
(Related: Life, Death, Sacrifice, Appetite, Glory, Instinct, Self)
"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
(Related: Movies, Appetite, Old, Romantic)
"Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression."
- Marshall McLuhan
(Related: Action, Appetite, Enjoyment, Expression, Will, World)
"Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood."
- Frederica Montseny
(Related: Men, Honesty, Appetite, Blood, Desire)
"It's probably fair to say that Obama's ideas were too big for America's appetite. It would have been nice had he made a few incremental repairs to the economy and left the transformative events for a less stressful time."
- Kathleen Parker
(Related: Time, Ideas, America, Appetite, Economy, Events)
"The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite."
- Robert M. Parker, Jr.
(Related: Food, Appetite, Writing)
"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
(Related: Food, Appetite, Man, Sight, Water)
"Appetite, craving for food, is a constant and powerful stimulator of the gastric glands."
- Ivan Pavlov
(Related: Food, Appetite)
"When I work I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whining grunting piglets of the appetites."
- Marge Piercy
(Related: Work, Eye)
"Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite."
- Marcus Fabius Quintilian
(Related: Change, Food, Appetite, Variety)
"The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason."
- Herbert Read
(Related: Intelligence, Society, Being, Living, Reason, Right)
"Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."
- Ronald Reagan
(Related: Government, Appetite, Baby, End, canal, Responsibility, Sense)
"That's easy to answer: I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in film."
- Alain Resnais
(Related: Appetite, Film, Living)
"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
(Related: Power, Wealth, Ability, Ambition, Appetite, Security)
"Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites."
- William Ruckelshaus
(Related: Nature, Control)
""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
(Related: Appetite, Drinking, Eating, Modesty, Restraint)
"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."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
(Related: Life, Wisdom, Actions, Appetite, Firmness, Mind, Talk, Words)
"A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
(Related: Appetite, Liberty)
"After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied."
- Ernest Shackleton
(Related: Gods, Hunger, Months, Want)
"The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of base and sullen appetites."
- George A. Smith
(Related: Life, Heart, Wealth, Satisfaction)
"Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food."
- Kate Smith
(Related: Food, People)
"Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted."
- Ralph W. Sockman
(Related: Life, Control, Actions, Habits)
"The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible."
- Steven Spielberg
(Related: Imagination, Appetite, Public, Reality)
"I lasted one night. They said my playing spoiled people's appetites."
- James Stewart
(Related: People, Night)
"Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning."
- Igor Stravinsky
(Related: Work, Inspiration, Appetite, Beginning, Eating)
"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
(Related: Life, Destruction, Poison)
"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
(Related: Life, Food, Animals, Appetite, Killing, Man)
"Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine."
- Anthony Trollope
(Related: Love, Appetite)
"I never lost my appetite for acting."
- Eli Wallach
(Related: Acting, Appetite)
"I've never lost my appetite for acting; it's innovative and challenging."
- Eli Wallach
(Related: Acting, Appetite)
"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
(Related: God, Appetite, Fighting, Light, Sweetness, World)
"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
(Related: Power, Illusion, State, Will, World)
"It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion."
- Steve Winwood
(Related: Discipline, American, Appetite, Freedom, Passion)
"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
(Related: Family, Men, Religion, Society, Appetite, Disorder, Duty, Feeling, Neglect, Pleasure)
"Once you've reached the point where you can pay rent, you can go to the vet and you can go to the grocery store, after that point it's all the same. I don't have the appetite for a decadent lifestyle."
- Renee Zellweger
(Related: Appetite)