My appetite comes to me while eating.
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–92) French Essayist
Young children and chickens would ever be eating.
—Thomas Tusser
Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread, and meat.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
Reason should direct and appetite obey.
—Cicero (106BCE–43BCE) Roman Philosopher, Orator, Politician, Lawyer
A woman’s appetite is twice that of a man’s; her sexual desire, four times; her intelligence, eight times.
—Indian Proverb
There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.
—Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) French Post-Impressionist Painter
The death that will kill a man begins as an appetite.
—African Proverb
A waiting appetite kindles many a spite.
—Italian Proverb
The poor looks for food and the rich man for appetite.
—Indian Proverb
No sauce like appetite.
—French Proverb
A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.
—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) (c.4 BCE–65 CE) Roman Stoic Philosopher, Statesman, Tragedian
There aid so few that resist the allurements and luxuries of the table, that the usual civilities at a meal are very like being politely assisted to the grave.
—Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806–67) American Poet, Playwright, Essayist
Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin Surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.
—John Milton (1608–74) English Poet, Civil Servant, Scholar, Debater
Now, good digestion wait on appetite, and health on both!
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
—Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American Head of State
Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.
—William Penn (1644–1718) American Entrepreneur, Philosopher, Political Leader
All things require skill, but an appetite.
—George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh Anglican Poet, Orator, Clergyman
Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge.
—John Locke (1632–1704) English Philosopher, Physician
Animals feed; man eats.—Only the man of intellect and judgment knows how to eat.
—Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755–1826) French Lawyer, Gourmet, Author
Who rises from a feast with that keen appetite that be sits down?
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
The lower your senses are kept, the better you may govern them.—Appetite and reason are like two buckets—when one is up, the other is down.—Of the two, I would rather have the reason-bucket uppermost.
—Jeremy Collier (1650–1726) Anglican Church Historian, Clergyman
Appetite comes with eating; the more one has, the more one would have.
—French Proverb
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you’ve conquered human nature.
—Charles Dickens (1812–70) English Novelist
Violent delights have violent ends, and in their triumph die; like fire and powder, which, as they kiss, consume: the sweetest honey is loathsome in his own deliciousness, and in the taste confounds the appetite.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
For a good appetite there is no hard bread.
—Dutch Proverb
The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719) English Essayist, Poet, Playwright, Politician
I look back on my life like a good day’s work; it is done and I am satisfied with it.
—Grandma Moses (1860–1961) American Painter, Artist
Now good digestion wait on appetite, and health on both.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–78) Swiss-born French Philosopher
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