Appetite Quote by Ambrose Bierce

The appetite of workers works for them; their hunger urges them on.

— Anonymous

Reason should direct, and appetite obey.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Wouldst thou enjoy a long Life, a healthy Body, and a vigorous Mind, and be acquainted also with the wonderful Works of God? labour…

— Benjamin Franklin

Hunger is the mother of impatience and anger.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which if not a virtue, is the groundwork of a virtue.

— Samuel Johnson

“When in a state of hunger, one ought not to undertake labor.”

— Hippocrates

To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which one of the Fathers observes to be not a virtue, but…

— Samuel Johnson

Sexual appetite, like any other appetite, grows by indulgence

— Anonymous

You have no idea what an appetite it gives one, being executed.

— Anonymous

After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might…

— Ernest Shackleton

You who desired so muchinvain to ask Yet fed your hunger like an endless task, Dared dignify the labor, bless the quest Achieved that…

— Anonymous

Desire is in men a hunger, in women only an appetite.

— Mignon McLaughlin