APPETITE

Related Subjects: Desire, Eating, Food, Hunger, Lust

1. These appetites are very humiliating weaknesses. That our grace depends so largely upon animal condition is not quite flattering to those who are hyperspiritual.—H. W. BEECHER

2. That I have appetite, digest, and thrive—that boon's for me.—BROWNING, Asolando

3. The youth who follows his appetites too soon seizes the cup, before it has received its best ingredients, and by anticipating his pleasures, robs the remaining parts of life of their share, so that his eagerness only produces a manhood of imbecility and an age of pain.—GOLDSMITH

4. Our appetites, of one or another kind, are excellent spurs to our reason, which might otherwise but feebly set about the great ends of preserving and continuing the species.—CHARLES LAMB

5. Why, she would hang on him,
   As if increase of appetite had grown
   By what it fed on.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet

6. Appetite, a universal wolf.—SHAKESPEARE, Troilus and Cressida

7. 'Tis not the meat, but 'tis the appetite
   Makes eating a delight.—SIR JOHN SUCKLING, Of Thee, King Boy

8. No man's body is as strong as his appetites, but Heaven has corrected the boundlessness of his voluptuous desires by stinting his strength and contracting his capacities.—JOHN TILLOTSON

9. Choose rather to punish your appetites than to be punished by them.—TYRIUS MAXIMUS