Appetite Quote by Jean-Baptiste Say

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

The strong desires of man's insatiate breast may stand possess'd Of all that earth can give; but earth can give no rest.

— Francis Quarles

So if hunger provokes wailing and wailing brings the breast; if the breast permits sucking and milk suggests its swallow; if swallowing issues in…

— William H. Gass

The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.

— William James

So it persists, for many of us, hunger channeled into some internal circuitry of longing, routed this way and that, emerging in a thousand…

— Caroline Knapp

Appetite for food and sex is nature.

— Laozi

Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as…

— Anonymous

Who can control this when its appetite is aroused? No one! In the very movement of this appetite, then, it has no "mode" that…

— Saint Augustine

It is a true observation of ancient writers, that as men are apt to be cast down by adversity, so they, are easily satiated…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“Sadly, the signals that allow men and women to find the partners who most please them are scrambled by the sexual insecurity initiated by…

— Naomi Wolf

Desire is craving enough to sacrifice for

— Myles Munroe

The man who is extremely and dangerously hungry has no other interest but food. Capacities not useful for the satisfying of hunger are pushed…

— Betty Friedan