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Quotes About Appetite

Illness isn't the only thing that spoils the appetite.
~ Ivan Turgenev
I simply cannot imagine why anyone would eat something slimy served in an ashtray.
~ Henry Beard
Who riseth from a feast With that keen appetite that he sits down?
~ William Shakespeare
Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop; the gut expanded to take in more and more.
~ John Updike
Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
~ John Dryden
How do they taste? They taste like more.
~ H. L. Mencken
I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I almost die for food, and let me have it!
~ William Shakespeare
Books cannot always please, however good; Minds are not ever craving for their food.
~ George Crabbe
Hunger finds no fault with the cookery.
~ Henry George Bohn
Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.
~ John Milton
The appetite grows with eating.
~ Francois Rabelais
Hunger is never delicate.
~ Samuel Johnson
In 'The Republic' he [Plato] states that the enjoyment of food is not a true pleasure because the purpose of eating is to relieve pain - hunger.
~ Mark Kurlansky
No, I don't take soup. You can't build a meal on a lake.
~ Elsie de Wolfe
Tis not a year or two shows us a man: They are all but stomachs, and we all but food; They eat us hungerly, and when they are full They belch us.
~ William Shakespeare
Appetite, a universal wolf.
~ William Shakespeare
Every fight is a food fight when youre a cannibal.
~ Demetri Martin
After violent emotion most people and all boys demand food.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Boys are cute, but food is cuter
~ Tori Amos
When I was a kid, my mother used to feed me mashed-potato sandwiches, brussel sprout sandwiches; my brain cells were starving from lack of food. I'll eat anything. I'll eat dirt.
~ Sylvester Stallone
There is no question that Rumanian-Jewish food is heavy. One meal is equal in heaviness, I would guess, to eight or nine years of steady mung-bean eating.
~ Calvin Trillin
He who feasts every day, feasts no day.
~ Charles Simmons
A noble hunger, long unsatisfied, met at last its proper food.
~ C. S. Lewis