Appetite Quotes
584 Appetite quotes by 438 unique authors
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If thou rise with an Appetite, thou art sure never to sit down without one.
— William Penn
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Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.
— John Milton
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All things require skill but an appetite.
— George Herbert
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Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The appetite grows with eating.
— Francois Rabelais
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The most fundamental liberal failure of the current era: the failure to embrace a moral vision of America based on the transcendent faith that human…
— Bill Moyers
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It is in virtue of his own desires and curiosities that any man continues to exist with even patience, that he is charmed by the…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all…
— Edmund Burke
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Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time one has ever…
— Oscar Wilde
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We become accomplices in evil every time we seek to soothe the unslakable appetites of the crime family that sits in Pyongyang.
— Christopher Hitchens
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The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility…
— Simone Weil
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The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment,…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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The Jehovah of the Jews is a suspicious tyrant, who breathes nothing but blood, murder, and carnage, and who demands that they should nourish him…
— Baron d'Holbach
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When it comes to satisfying our spiritual appetites, there is no such thing as excess. There are no restraints placed on us by God. There…
— Sam Storms
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Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy…
— Samuel Ullman
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Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his…
— Horace
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I only read what I am hungry for at the moment when I have an appetite for it, and then I do not read, I…
— Simone Weil
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Wouldst thou enjoy a long Life, a healthy Body, and a vigorous Mind, and be acquainted also with the wonderful Works of God? labour in…
— Benjamin Franklin
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We used to flock to watch gladiators, public torture and executions. In more recent times, our appetite for mortal violence has been sublimated in sports,…
— Kenneth Oppel
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When there were not very many Internet companies, the supply of Internet companies to the market was small and the appetite for them was large.…
— Fred Wilson
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I sense very little appetite for green efforts to persuade people to accept a frozen or declining standard of living for the sake of the…
— Matt Ridley
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My appetite for public policy and changing it, and not only being a part of the conversation, but affecting it in a positive way, never…
— Harold Ford, Jr.
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I used to love fine dining, but I lost my appetite for it to a degree because sometimes it is too much about the effort…
— Yotam Ottolenghi
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I would hardly say that I have a rich knowledge of anything in particular, but I do seem to be burdened with an unseemly appetite…
— Thomas Steinbeck
Who Wrote These Appetite Quotes
438 authors contributed a total of 584 Appetite Quotes, led by these top contributors: