quotations about appetite
There be those that make it their glory to feed high, and fare deliciously every day, and to maintain their bodies elementary, search the elements, the earth, the sea, and air, to maintain the fire of their appetites.
FRANCIS QUARLES & ARTHUR WARWICK
Enchiridion Miscellaneum
If thou rise with an appetite, thou art sure never to sit down without one.
WILLIAM PENN
Fruits of Solitude
Now good digestion wait on appetite,
And health on both!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Macbeth
There never lived a mortal man who bent
His appetite beyond his natural sphere,
But starved and died.
JOHN KEATS
Endymion
The surest way in feeding is to leave with an appetite.
THOMAS COGAN
Haven of Health
Poor wretches, do you not know that your appetites are bigger than your bellies?
SENECA
Epistulae ad Lucilium
I have no wish to waste my appetite.
MARTIAL
Epigrams
Some people have food, but no appetite; others have appetite, but no food. I have both. The Lord be praised.
OLIVER CROMWELL
attributed, Grace
A person's needs are met, and his appetite subsides. A person's wants are met, and his thirst swells greedily without end.
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH
Smile Anyway
That which is not good is not delicious
To a well-governed and wise appetite.
JOHN MILTON
Comus
Your appetite is just a desire for food or drink. That sounds so simple, right? Yes, it is pretty simple. That is until you started allowing it to run around with all of those other appeasers that reside right alongside of it in the one-fourth zone above your neck.
JOYCE ANN IVEY
Divorcing Unhealthy Foods
Epicurean cooks
Sharpen with cloyless sauce his appetite.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Antony and Cleopatra
The best way to improve your appetite is to go on a diet.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Your greedy gluttonous lustful appetite!
Out of the very toughest bones they beat
The marrow, since they will throw nothing out
That may slip down the gullet sweet and smooth.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
The Canterbury Tales
To make our appetites more keen,
With eager compounds we our palates urge.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Sonnets
I find no abhorring in mine appetite.
JOHN DONNE
Devotions
The best things beyond their measure cloy.
HOMER
The Iliad
Hear I the blatant appetite demand
Due sustenance, and with a voice that drowns
E'en all my suff'rings, till itself be fill'd.
HOMER
The Odyssey
That heavenly food, which gives new appetite.
DANTE ALIGHIERI
Purgatorio
Short are his meals, and homely is his fare;
His thirst he slakes at some pure neighbouring brook,
Nor asks for sauce where appetite stands cook.
CHARLES CHURCHILL
Gotham