Curiosity should be as carefully cherish'd in children, as other appetites suppress'd. — John Locke Copy Share Image
A woman's appetite is twice that of a man's; her sexual desire, four times; her intelligence, eight — Billy Crystal Copy Share Image
Who riseth from a feast With that keen appetite that he sits down? — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I have a healthy appetite for solitude. If you don't, you have no business being a writer. — Will Self Copy Share Image
I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The persistent appetite for human beings for community is what we should all be dedicated to. — Bob Maguire Copy Share Image
Doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Appetite has really become an artificial and abnormal thing, having taken the place of true hunger, which alone is natural. The one… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
If men were ever to lose the appetite for meaning we call thinking, they would lose the capacity for asking all the… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
A child hasn't a grown-up person's appetite for affection. A little of it goes a long way with them; and they like… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .. Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..The child [uses]… — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
I try my best to stay healthy, but I have the appetite of a nine-year-old boy, so I just pay for it… — Italia Ricci Copy Share Image
An intelligent class can scarce ever be, as a class, vicious, and never, as a class, indolent. The excited mental activity operates… — Edward Everett Hale Copy Share Image
In education the appetite does indeed grow with eating. I have never known anyone to abandon study because they knew too much. — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
“Acquired appetite takes precedence over natural eating. Your palate is plastic and it will change with consistency and practice.” — Julieanna Hever Copy Share Image
“I love words as food. It fills up my appetite with parsley, mint, and species. It has a way of keeping my… — Christina Strigas Copy Share Image
There are some readers who have never read an essay on taste; and if they take my advice they never will, for… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
A pivotal spiritual attribute is that of self-mastery-th e strength to place reason over appetite. Self-mastery builds a strong conscience. And your… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
I am alive, he says to himself, I am alive! And life energy surges hotly through him, and delight, and appetite. How… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
The message coming out of Washington, especially from our leftist politicians and the news media, is that we solve our budget problems… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
I think people are largely proud of being musically on the risk. Any time you talk to someone about music, I feel… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
My point is that when you look at a rabbit and can see only a pest, or vermin, or a meal, or… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
Memory is like a purse, if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of… — Thomas Fuller Copy Share Image
“Up out of the orange glow of our fire you could see immense systems of uncountable stars, either as individual blazers, or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I know a 'crime against nature' when I see one. It is usually a sign of crimes against nature that we cannot… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
It's difficult for the public to realize how powerful the mind is, and how much pain the mind can give you. When… — Rod Steiger Copy Share Image
How dominating is appetite, how enveloping immediate experience! Even the philosophically minded among us capitulate, ultimately, to the narrowest sense of personal… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, averice and… — Angus Wilson Copy Share Image
Narrative and metaphysics alike become flimsy and frivolous if they venture too far from the home base of all humanism - the… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“The fatal combination of indulgence without feeling disgusts me. Strange to be both greedy and dead. For myself, I prefer to hold… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Misfortune occurs or can occur to anyone, of any sort of character. The eudaimonic has more resources to avoid it (being in… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image