Quotes about Appetite

If gazelles had a religion and the lion was their god they could, in order to appease his appetite, voluntarily surrender one of their number to him. This is exactly what happens among men: religious sacrifice springs from a state of crowd fear. It serves to halt the pursuit and, for a while, stil the hunger of the hostile power.

I come from a family of great cooks and big eaters.

An unsatisfied appetite for knowledge means progress and is the state of a normal mind.

I really don't have a favorite meal. I eat anything.

There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation.

The mind's deepest desire, even in its most elaborate operations, parallels man's unconscious feeling in the face of his universe: it is an insistence upon familiarity, an appetite for clarity.

A man who wants to control his animal passions easily does so if he controls his palate.

None but such as are good men can give good things, and that which is not good, is not delicious to a well-govern'd and wise appetite.

God's creative design was that your ravenous appetite for pleasure find fulfillment in Him, for nothing more wonderfully reveals His glory than the joy the creature has in its Creator.