Appetite Quotes

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other. (Ronald Reagan)
Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners. View quote
Nicolas Chamfort
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own. View quote
Richard Francis Burton
Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine. View quote
Anthony Trollope
I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone. View quote
Lord Byron
The Malays are spiritually inclined, tolerant and easy-going. The non-Malays, and especially the Chinese, are materialistic, aggressive and have an appetite for work. For equality to come about, it is necessary that these strikingly contrasting races adjust to each other. View quote
Mahathir bin Mohamad
PIG, n. An animal ('Porcus omnivorus') closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die. View quote
William Shakespeare
Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end. View quote
Tryon Edwards
From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm. (Edward Abbey)
I try to feed my hunger rather than my appetite. View quote
Ginger Rogers
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 but in their status as possessions. View quote
Christopher Lasch
Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood. View quote
Federica Montseny
An Unsatisfied Appetite for Knowledge Means Progress and Is the State of a Normal Mind. View quote
David O. McKay
"Sex" is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other. View quote
Marquis de Sade
Appetite comes with eating, says Angeston. But the thirst goes away with drinking. View quote
François Rabelais
The commonest and cheapest sounds, as the barking of a dog, produce the same effect on fresh and healthy ears that the rarest music does. It depends on your appetite for sound. Just as a crust is sweeter to a healthy appetite than confectionery to a pampered or diseased one. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards. View quote
George Eliot
I never trust people with no appetite. It's like they're always holding something back on you. View quote
Haruki Murakami
Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control. (Marcus Aurelius)
All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for rubbish. View quote
Vivienne Westwood
I usually work in a direction until I know how to do it, then I stop. At the time that I am bored or understand - I use those words interchangeably - another appetite has formed. View quote
Robert Rauschenberg
One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success. View quote
Paulo Freire
Death is not an evil, because it frees us from all evils, and while it takes away good things, it takes away also the desire for them. Old age is the supreme evil, because it deprives us of all pleasures, leaving us only the appetite for them, and it brings with it all sufferings. Nevertheless, we fear death, and we desire old age. View quote
Giacomo Leopardi