Appetite

Appetite is the desire to eat food, felt as hunger. Appetite exists in all higher life-forms, and serves to regulate adequate energy intake to maintain metabolic needs.

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• And gazed around them to the left and right
  With the prophetic eye of appetite.
  • Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto V, Stanza 50.

• Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin
  Surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.
  • John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book VII, line 546.

• Epicurean cooks
  Sharpen with cloyless sauce his appetite.
  • William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (1600s), Act II, scene 1, line 24.

• Read o'er this;
  And after, this; and then to breakfast, with
  What appetite you have.
  • William Shakespeare, Henry VIII (1613), Act III, scene 2, line 201.

• Now good digestion wait on appetite,
  And health on both!
  • William Shakespeare, Macbeth (1605), Act III, scene 4, line 38.

• Who riseth from a feast
  With that keen appetite that he sits down?
  • William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (late 1590s), Act II, scene 6, line 8.

• Doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his youth, that he cannot endure in his age.
  • William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (1598-99), Act II, scene 3, line 250.

• Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite?
  • William Shakespeare, Richard II (c. 1595), Act I, scene 3, line 296.

• The sweetest honey
  Is loathsome in his own deliciousness,
  And in the taste confounds the appetite.
  • William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (1597), Act II, scene 6, line 11.

• And through the hall there walked to and fro
  A jolly yeoman, marshall of the same,
  Whose name was Appetite; he did bestow
  Both guestes and meate, whenever in they came,
  And knew them how to order without blame.
  • Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1589-96), Book II, Canto IX, Stanza 28.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 36.

• His thirst he slakes at some pure neighboring brook,
  Nor seeks for sauce where Appetite stands cook.
  • Charles Churchill, Gotham III, line 133.

• I find no abhorring in my appetite.
  • John Donne, Devotion.

• L'anima mia gustava di quel cibo,
  Che saziando di sè, di sè s'asseta.
  • My soul tasted that heavenly food, which gives new appetite while it satiates.
  • Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio XXXI, 128.

• Keen appetite
  And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
  • John Dryden, Cleomenes, Act IV, scene 1.

• My appetite comes to me while eating.
  • Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Of Vanity, Book III, Chapter IX. Same saying by Amyot and Jerome.

• Put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
  • Proverbs, XXIII. 2.

• "L'appétit vient en mangeant," disoit Angeston, "mais la soif s'en va en beuvant."
  • "Appetite comes with eating," says Angeston, "but thirst departs with drinking."
  • François Rabelais, Works, Book I, Chapter V. (Angeston was Jerome le Hangeste, doctor and scholar, who died 1538).

• Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life—a firmness of mind and mastery of appetite.
  • Seneca, Epistles, XX.

• Young children and chickens would ever be eating.
  • Thomas Tusser, Points of Huswifery, Supper Matters, V.