Appetite Quotes
584 quotes by 453 authors
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My garden does not whet the appetite; it satisfies it. It does not provoke thirst through heedless indulgence, but slakes it by proffering its natural…
— Epicurus
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Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.
— Joseph Joubert
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Nothing quenches the thirst like a wheat beer, or sharpens the appetite like an India pale ale. Nothing goes as well with seafood as a…
— Michael Jackson
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Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other, and wrapping up the true…
— Bernard de Mandeville
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As we grow older, our capacity for enjoyment shrinks, but not our appetite for it.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to…
— Douglas MacArthur
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People who have lost their hunger for justice are not ultimately powerful. They are like sick people who have lost their appetite for what is…
— Cesar Chavez
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We ought not to extract pernicious honey from poison blossoms of misrepresentation and mendacious half-truth, to pamper the course appetite of bigotry and self-love.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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To change, you must face the dragon of your appetites with another dragon: the life-energy of the soul.
— Rumi
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Anyone buying this book is going to be out a tidy sum if he is sucked in by the title. I wish I could write…
— Groucho Marx
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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…
— Ralph Washington Sockman
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But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: for men have entered…
— Francis Bacon
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We all have hometown appetites. Every other person is a bundle of longing for the simplicities of good taste once enjoyed on the farm or…
— Clementine Paddleford
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Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
— John Dryden
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Love makes us instinctively reach out to God and other people. Lust, on the other hand, is anything but godly and celebrates self-indulgence. Love comes…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
— Henry Fielding
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Desire is in men a hunger, in women only an appetite.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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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…
— Pico Iyer
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Going out across the desert I remember the feelings that you have, wondering if you're going to make it out alive. Right now I wonder…
— Scott Perry
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Small actions are at the heart of kaizen. By taking steps so tiny that they seem trivial or even laughable, you'll sail calmly past obstacles…
— Robert D. Maurer
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