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Quotes About Satiety

Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.
~ Jonathan Swift
I ask T to tell me what to write about, she says, Saturation, and I think of that feeling when you're really full, or life is full and you can't think of anything else that could fit in it, but then even more sky comes and more days and there is so much to remember and swallow.
~ Ada Limón
THE FIRST PRINCIPLE OF GASTRONOMY There's a rule for proper doses in the dinner-eaters lore: one should stop the filling process while one still has room for more. And if someone at the table had reminded me before - Hallelujah! I'd be able to absorb a little more.
~ Piet Hein
To lengthen your life, shorten your meals.
~ Proverb
The platter could probably sate four starving Ethiopians into a crapulous state.
~ Rabih Alameddine
You just don't eat until you feel like you're gonna throw up at every meal and all of a sudden the weight falls right off.
~ Joe Thomas
Yossarian gorged himself in the mess hall until he thought he would explode and then sagged back in a contented stupor, his mouth filmy with a succulent residue.
~ Joseph Heller
Nobody got murdered before lunch. But nobody. People weren't up to it. You needed a good lunch to get both the blood-sugar and blood-lust levels up.
~ Douglas Adams
When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.
~ Agatha Christie
I can never finish a burger, and even if it's just a millimetre, I'll leave it. I don't know why I can't finish it. I don't know if it is physiological, but I just feel like I'm full halfway through it.
~ Sara Sampaio
Thin people release the fork, and they chew the food with the fork on the table. They chew their food slowly. They look around at each other or the wall or a picture. They listen to the music. They sit back and take a breath. They do something other than concentrate on shoving the food into their body.
~ Jean Nidetch
Not like Chinese food, where you eat it and then you feel hungry an hour later.
~ Ray Liotta
Instead of a sandwich, you're much better off enjoying a delicious and filling supper of around 400 calories - and that will see you right through until bedtime.
~ Dave Myers
For many of us, eating has surprisingly little to do with hunger. We eat out of boredom, for entertainment, to comfort or reward ourselves. Try to be aware of why you're eating, and ask yourself if you're really hungry - before you eat and then again along the way.
~ Michael Pollan
Le duc mangea copieusement, puis il alla se coucher et dormit de fort bon appétit.
~ Raymond Queneau
Restated constructively, the end of the adventure already drags the course of the man; he (Cagliostro) is in love with satiety. But she (Seraphina) is in love with adventure. Her pitch is higher.
~ WILLIAM BOLITHO
Happy people die whole, they are all dissolved in a moment, they have had what they wanted.
~ Robinson Jeffers
Don't eat till you're full, eat till you're tired.
~ Andrew Zimmern
Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty.
~ Minna Antrim
They surfeited with honey and beganTo loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a littleMore than a little is by much too much.
~ William Shakespeare
As a surfeit of the sweetest thingsThe deepest loathing to the stomach brings.
~ William Shakespeare
The more dishes a man has on his table beyond what is sufficient, the sooner satiety in eating comes upon him.
~ xenophon iii
A little too much is just enough for me.
~ Jean Cocteau
right after the evening meal, as I am
~ Elizabeth Rose