Ivan Pavlov
Physiologist
"Appetite, craving for food, is a constant and powerful stimulator of the gastric glands."
Appetite quotes
Appetite
101 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Dante Alighieri
Poet, Philosopher
"My soul tasted that heavenly food, which gives new appetite while it satiates."
Ovid
Poet
"Stop short of your appetite; eat less than you are able."
Zig Ziglar
Author, Motivational Speaker
"What you feed your mind determines your appetite."
Emily Dickinson
Poet
"I have an appetite for silence."
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"The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness."
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"It is unnatural for a Christian not to have an appetite for the impossible."
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"Tyranny knows no restraint of appetite."
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"Now, good digestion wait on appetite, and health on both!"
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"Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge."
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"The best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst."
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"Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment."
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"Do not blame the food because you have no appetite."
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"Listen to some good poetry. You see? It keeps us from thinking we are only what our blatant appetites describe us as."
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"Sexual appetite, like any other appetite, grows by indulgence"
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"No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it."
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"Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin."
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"Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it."
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"Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without."
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"Turtle makes all men equal."
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"Read o'er this And after, this, and then to breakfast with What appetite you have."
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"I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites."
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"My appetite comes to me while eating."
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"You can fill my appetite without me taking up a bite."
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"It's always nice to anticipate working in something that you know people will have an appetite for."
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