32 Quotes About Appetite

Food is an important part of our lives. Without it, we wouldn’t survive. We can’t expect to go anywhere without eating, nor do we have the energy to do anything if we don’t eat enough. Food can be a source of comfort, a mood-booster, a party favor, a treat for a special occasion, a comfort food, or even a way to celebrate Read more

Here are some of our favorite funny and inspirational quotes about food and eating!

The ego lusts for satisfaction. It has a prideful ferocious...
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The ego lusts for satisfaction. It has a prideful ferocious appetite for its version of "truth". It is the most challenging aspect to conquer; the cause for most spiritual turmoil. T.F. Hodge
When you fall for your appetite too early, you may...
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When you fall for your appetite too early, you may not be able to endure to the end. Israelmore Ayivor
Challenges will come that is inevitable. But they can’t easily...
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Challenges will come that is inevitable. But they can’t easily destroy your future than your own appetite. Israelmore Ayivor
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In one of the largest surveys of its kind to date, nearly 30, 000 women told researchers at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine that they'd rather lose weight than attain any other goal, a figure that alone suggests just how complicated the issue of appetite can be for women. This is the primary female striving? The appetite to lose appetite? In fact, I suspect the opposite is true: that the primary, underlying striving among many women at the start of the millennium is the appetite for appetite: a longing to feel safe and secure enough to name one's true appetites and worthy and powerful enough to get them satisfied. Caroline Knapp
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We should set our goals; then learn to control our appetites. Otherwise, we will lose ourselves in the confusion of the world. Hark Herald Sarmiento
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Kill your appetite and save for the future! Israelmore Ayivor
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When sex was something godlike, Lust was the profane curiosity that killed many a straying cat. Now, having removed mystery, Lust is less a long-standing, overpowering yearning, more a sudden craving of the appetite. Less quest, more impulse buy. Geoffrey Wood
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Society is composed of two great classes-- those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners. Sebastien Chamfort
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Whenever you get an appetite, you feed yourself. Therefore, fill your belly on wisdom of things old and new. Only swallow the truth, less you choke on the lies. Amaka Imani Nkosazana
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The job of taste was to thin the insane torrent of human creativity down to manageable levels. But the job of appetite was never to be happy with taste. Richard Powers
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Nothing mitigates the throes of depression like a steaming plate of spaghetti and meatballs with marinara sauce and grated parmasan cheese, with a good fresh bread to wipe up. Paul Clayton
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I never trust people with no appetite. It's like they're always holding something back on you. Haruki Murakami
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Success and failure can both make you lose appetite and concentration, don't let it bother or over-excite you, just think them away as a mere thing that had just happened, and get along with your life. Michael Bassey Johnson
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Jelly had no brain per se but was in essence all brain, a shared consciousness programmed for desire. He had an appetite for everything, voraciously absorbing the culture that surrounded him and becoming it, only louder. In other words, he was extremely teenaged. Larry Doyle
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Appetite has really become an artificial and abnormal thing, having taken the place of true hunger, which alone is natural. The one is a sign of bondage but the other, of freedom. Paul Brunton
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Cow, goat, chicken, lamb .. . only slaves eat like this, ’ Musa said, heaping an impolite amount on to his plate. ‘Our stomachs are graveyards. Arundhati Roy
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Michelin Star? I’d rather chew a French rubber tyre. Fennel Hudson
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THE FIRST PRINCIPLE OF GASTRONOMY There's a rule for proper dosesin the dinner-eaters lore:one should stop the filling processwhile one still has room for more. And if someone at the tablehad reminded me before -Hallelujah! I'd be ableto absorb a little more. Piet Hein
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There is also a tradition about Socrates. He liked walking, it is recorded, until a late hour of the evening, and when someone asked him why he did this he said he was trying to work up an appetite for his dinner. Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread. They may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end. Tyron Edwards
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It was understood that they shared the same thresholds--the same inexhaustible appetite for wasting time, for discussing lofty ideas, for dissecting trivial things, for driving to nowhere in particular, for listening to music, for talking about books, for obsessing over pop culture, but mostly for laughing, talking, and simply being together. There was nothing one could say that the other would find too cruel or too kind. And on those rare occasions when they did tire of each other, they needed only go a day without talking before they yearned to reconnect. Galt Niederhoffer
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My heart is hardy, for I have suffered much on the seas and the battlefield: this will be only something more. But a ravenous belly cannot be hid, damn the thing. It gives a world of trouble to men, makes them fit out fleets of ships and scour the barren sea, to bring misery on their enemies. W.H.D. Rouse
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The awkwardness of getting reward in a well-off society is that the creation of appetite often requires undoing the work of satisfying appetite. George Ainslie
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Bread is a second cause; the LORD Himself is the first source of our sustenance. He can work without the second cause as well as with it; and we must not tie Him down to one mode of operation. Let us not be too eager after the visible, but let us look to the invisible God. Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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Privation is the cause of appetite Unknown
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The thanks of a weak one are but of little value, " he muttered, "but you have them, for truly, in this past week, little but scraps have come my way- and for all my body is small, yet is my appetite unseemly great. Isaac Asimov
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Short story collections are the literary equivalent of canapés, tapas and mezze in the world of gastronomy: Delightful assortments of tasty morsels to whet the reader's appetite. Alex Morritt
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O.K. I'm running out of appetite. Let this swirl– a bit like Crab Nebula– do for now. Charles Olson
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Animals feed man eats die man of intellect alone knows how to eat. Anthelme Brillat Savarin
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All philosophy in two words - sustain and abstain. Epictetus
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If you are surprised at the number of our maladies count our cooks. Seneca