Quotes About Appetite

An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.

As with most things in life, Lady Maccon preferred the civilized exterior to the dark underbelly (with the exception of pork products, of course.)

For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.

People who are not interested in food always seem rather dry and unloving and don't have a real gusto for life.

The first meal my husband ever made me was a chicken curry. I have never tasted anything so delicious in my life.

The unregenerate human heart is, perhaps,the most inconsistent thing in all nature; and in nothing is it more capricious than in the manifestations of its passions; and in no passion is it so fantastic as in that which it miscalls love, but which is really often only appetite.

If the appetite goes, the pain goes with it.

Food, the stoking-up process, the keeping alive of an individual flame, the process that begins before birth and is continued after it by the mother, and finally taken over by the individual himself, who goes on day after day putting an assortment of objects into a hole in his face without becoming surprised or bored.

With nothing to look forward to but the next meal, the human animal attaches a preposterous importance to his feeding.

Feast" I drank at every vine. The last was like the first. I came upon no wine So wonderful as thirst. I gnawed at every root. I ate of every plant. I came upon no fruit So wonderful as want. Feed the grape and bean To the vintner and monger: I will lie down lean With my thirst and my hunger.

GENNARO Ma vedite che s' 'a da fa' pe' magna.»

Siempre se piensa mejor con el estómago lleno, dicen los que tienen estómago.

A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.

From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.

the best of all sauces is hunger

Simply breathing, in a place like this, arouses the appetite.

If hunger is not the problem, then eating is not the solution.

Put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.

Lust will curdle like milk if you don't keep using it up.

Animals feed themselves, men eat; but only wise men know the art of eating.

You lose sleep, you lose your appetite, but eventually you fall asleep and eventually you eat - you may hate yourself for it, but the body's demands are incontrovertible. He had always felt guilty about that, that he went on living, eating tomato sandwiches, going to Iditarod Days with his father, making snowballs, when his mother could not.

One section of the old city, tucked against the western walls, becomes a firestorm in which the spires of flames, at their highest, reach three hundred feet. The appetite for oxygen is such that objects heavier than housecats are dragged into the flames.

People think that if you have a huge appetite, then you'll be better at it. But actually, it's how you confront the food that is brought to you. You have to be mentally and psychologically prepared.

Believe it or not, I've got a really bad metabolism. One burger and I'm done. I'm not a guy that puts away 10 burgers.