appetite quotes

• Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a taxing-machine; to the contented, a machine for securing property. Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable. (Thomas Carlyle) [men/government/appetite/virtue]
• Reason should direct and appetite obey. (Marcus Cicero) [appetite]
• Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite. (George Eliot) [appetite]
• Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [appetite]
• Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires. (Benjamin Franklin) [fortune/appetite/present/more]
• How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty. (Eric Hoffer) [death/appetite]
• Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness. (Henrik Ibsen) [money/food/appetite/health]
• Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must be satisfied before it is disgusted. (Samuel Johnson) [compliments/appetite]
• Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment. (Samuel Johnson) [taste/slave/appetite/future]
• Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. (Ronald Reagan) [government/appetite/responsibility]
• A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty. ( Seneca) [appetite]
• The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either (Simone Weil) [appetite/power/power]
• Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I'd rather read a book. ( Madonna) [appetite/truth]
• I am pleased to tell you that he is finally getting some rest and is regaining his appetite as well. (LaToya Jackson) [rest/appetite]
• The other two things are... well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees, and the more romantic the better. (Ewan McGregor) [appetite/more]
• Once you've reached the point where you can pay rent, you can go to the vet and you can go to the grocery store, after that point it's all the same. I don't have the appetite for a decadent lifestyle. (Renee Zellweger) [point/point/appetite]
• “There was this insatiable appetite for anything on me. I’ll never forget the feeling of waking up in the morning and my stomach would be churning, and the phone would ring and someone would tell me I was on the front page of something. It got to the point where I was miserable.” (Catherine Zeta-Jones) [appetite/forget/feeling/morning]
• I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone. (George Gordon Byron) [appetite/being]
• I never lost my appetite for acting. (Eli Wallach) [appetite]
• I've never lost my appetite for acting; it's innovative and challenging. (Eli Wallach) [appetite]
• I was gaining weight very rapidly and read about the idea of restricting carbohydrates as an alternative to going hungry. I had a big appetite, so that was the only thing I would even consider. (Robert Atkins) [appetite/thing]
• It is true I gained muscular vigour, but with it a prodigious appetite, which I was compelled to indulge, and consequently increased in weight, until my kind old friend advised me to forsake the exercise. (William Banting) [appetite/exercise]

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