appetite quotes

It is better dealing with men in appetite, than with those that are where they would be.

- Francis,Viscount St Albans Bacon
  Essays, no.47,'Of Negotiating'.

All things are lawful there that may delight Nature or unrestraine'  d appetite.

-Thomas Carew
  'A Rapture'.

   A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.

- George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans Eliot
^2  Middlemarch, bk.1, ch.9.

Let the Stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savoryand the appetite is keen.

- RalphWaldo Emerson
  Essays: Second Series,'Nature'.

What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.

- Henry Fielding
  Tom Jones, bk.6, ch.1.

To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfilment, making the fulfilment onlya step to a further one.The vaster the power gained the vaster theappetite for more.

- Ursula ne  e Kroeber Le Guin
The Lathe of Heaven, ch.9.

To curle on the ice, does greatly please, Being a manly Scottish exercise; It clears the Brains, stirs up the Native Heat, And gives a gallant appetite for Meat.

- DrAlex Penecuik
  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

L'appe  tit vient en mangeant. Appetite comes with eating.

- Fran c° ois Rabelais
  Gargantua, bk.1, ch.5.

   'Tis not the meat; but 'tis the appetite Makes eating a delight.

- SirJohn Suckling
c.1638  Sonnet no.2.