Appetite Quotes

584 Appetite quotes by 438 unique authors

Practice restraint over the following: appetite, first, as well as sleep, lust, and anger. — Pythagoras
An intelligent class can scarce ever be, as a class, vicious, and never, as a class, indolent. The excited mental activity operates as a counterpoise… — Edward Everett Hale
To be happy one must be (a) well fed, unhounded by sordid cares, at ease in Zion, (b) full of a comfortable feeling of superiority… — H. L. Mencken
Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification. — George Bernard Shaw
The Lord is well aware of our mortality. He knows our weaknesses. He understands the challenges of our everyday lives. He has great empathy for… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
No, I got a GED in my 30s. My kids know that I never stop learning, and they know I love reading. I have books… — Michael J. Fox
There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite. — Paul Gauguin
I was taught a lot of Bible at home and had a voracious appetite for reading the Bible. — Amy Grant
Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only… — Robin G. Collingwood
Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger. — Bill Cosby
I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal. — Benedict Cumberbatch
Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs. — Leonardo da Vinci
Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and… — Benjamin Disraeli
Our insatiable appetite for fossil fuels and the corporate mandate to maximize shareholder value encourages drilling without taking into account the costs to the ocean,… — Sylvia Earle
Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end. — Tryon Edwards
LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites. — Henry Fielding
I am pleased to tell you that he is finally getting some rest and is regaining his appetite as well. — LaToya Jackson
I get bored very easily. I have a voracious appetite and I do not feel alive if I'm repeating something I'm good at. So I'm… — Jewel
Let's keep the chemists over here and the food over here, that's my feeling. What do I know? But that is a big aspect of… — Greg Kinnear
You can't have bank holding companies acting as hedge funds. You can't have them taking a million-dollar pension plan for Joe Schmo the bus driver… — Shia LaBeouf
Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much of the same. — Steve Lacy
A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use… — Christopher Lasch
The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a… — Christopher Lasch
America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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