PIG, n. An animal ("Porcus omnivorus") closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however,… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“A bit o' bread's what I like from one year's end to the other; but men's stomachs are made so comical, they… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We ought not to extract pernicious honey from poison blossoms of misrepresentation and mendacious half-truth, to pamper the course appetite of bigotry… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I've entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
My husband is experimental, loves to cook, and is really good at it. If I do the cooking, I lose my appetite.… — Jasmine Guinness Copy Share Image
We all have hometown appetites. Every other person is a bundle of longing for the simplicities of good taste once enjoyed on… — Clementine Paddleford Copy Share Image
If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth. — Democritus Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I used to be very impatient with anyone who wasn't doing overtly political work. I've since come to… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
China is an old nation with a colourful history. Its booming economy has triggered an appetite and a curiosity around the world… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
So near are the boundaries of panegyric and invective, that a worn-out sinner is sometimes found to make the best declaimer against… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
The American taxing structure, the purpose of which was to serve the people, began instead to serve the insatiable appetite of government.… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
'Live each day as if it is your last,' said Mahatma Gandhi. 'Learn as if you'll live forever.' This is what I'm… — Benjamin B. Dunlap Copy Share Image
All sensuality is one, though it takes many forms; all purity is one. It is the same whether a man eat, or… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When secularization has had its full sway, it will leave a generation devoid of shame. And if you show me a generation… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
The other two things are... well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the… — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
On many issues, empathy can pull us in the wrong direction. The outrage that comes from adopting the perspective of a victim… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
Some people have food, but no appetite; others have an appetite, but no food. I have both. The Lord be praised. — Oliver Cromwell Copy Share Image
[Camila] was quite incapable of establishing any harmony between the claims of her art, of her appetites, or her dreams, and of… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Fasting deprives us of things that are not good so we can have enough appetite for the good things of God. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Not surprisingly, in most Sunni regions there has little appetite for free U.S.-sponsored elections. — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
“When you have a keen passion for something, you follow through even without waiting to be reminded.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Do we have the right to rear animals in order to kill them so that we may feed appetites in which we… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
Commercial society regards people as bundles of appetites, a conception that turns human beings inside out, leaving nothing to be regarded as… — George Will Copy Share Image
All my clients eat. Madonna has a very healthy appetite. She doesn't eat processed food, she's very conscious of the quality of… — Tracy Anderson Copy Share Image
When the balance is broken then everything includes itself in power, power into will, will into appetite. So appetite, aided by will… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
“Wil ate without enthusiasm. His bacon tasted like nothing. Like a dead animal, fried. His eggs, aborted chickens.” — Max Barry Copy Share Image
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Our appetites, of one or another kind, are excellent spurs to our reason, which might otherwise but feebly set about the great… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Did any man at his death ever regret his conflicts with himself, his victories over appetite, his scorn of impure pleasure, or… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
“Conquer thyself, till thou hast done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't starve myself. Anyone who knows me will tell you I have an appetite. I'd much rather work out and not… — Marisa Miller Copy Share Image
There are three things to beware of through life: when a man is young, let him beware of his appetites; when he… — Confucius Copy Share Image
As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the 'spirited element.' — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I hate with a bitter hatred the names of lentils haricots - those pretentious cheats of the appetite, those tabulated humbugs, those… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The job of taste was to thin the insane torrent of human creativity down to manageable levels. But the job of appetite… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image