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• Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Hair, Worry, Pulse

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• Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• My forces are not enfeebled, I find no decay in my strength; my provisions are not cut off, I find no abhorring in mine appetite; my counsels are not corrupted nor infatuated, I find no false apprehensions to work upon mine understanding; and yet they see that invisibly, and I feel that insensibly, the disease prevails.

  Bill Vaughan

  Cutting, Understanding, Decay

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• If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.

  William Shakespeare

  Music, Food, Unrequited Love

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

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• A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Time, Men

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 3, l. [258]

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• Who riseth from a feast With that keen appetite that he sits down?

  William Shakespeare

  Food, Cooking, Culinary

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.6021, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.

  Steven Spielberg

  Reality, Imagination, Far Away

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• The sweetest honey
  Is loathsome in his own deliciousness.

  William Shakespeare

  Romeo And Juliet Love, Honey, Sweetest

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.149, Classic Books Company

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• Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beauty, Apathy, Satisfaction

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• 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

  Funny, Baby, Military

  Ronald Reagan, Bill Adler (1981). “The Reagan wit”, Jameson Books

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• My appetite comes to me while eating.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Eating

  Michel de Montaigne, Bayle St. John (1866). “Essays [tr. by Cotton”, p.282

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• Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Agency, Expression, Political

  Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon, Barrington Nevitt, Harold Adams Innis (2005). “Marshall McLuhan: American advertising”

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• Read o'er this And after, this, and then to breakfast with What appetite you have.

  William Shakespeare

  Breakfast

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 2, l. 203

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• Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Wisdom, Color

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think maybe when you live with someone who is really very ill for a long time, it somehow gives you more of a greedy appetite for life and maybe, yes, you are less measured in your behaviour than you would otherwise be.

  Nigella Lawson

  Thinking, Appetite For Life, Long

  "Nigella Lawson: Who'd be a goddess?" by Sally Vincent, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2004.

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• The appetite is sharpened by the first bites.

  Jose Rizal

  Food, Firsts, Bites

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• A well-governed appetite is a great part of liberty

  Seneca the Younger

  Freedom, Liberty, Moderation

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• My soul tasted that heavenly food, which gives new appetite while it satiates.

  Dante Alighieri

  Giving, Soul, Heavenly

  "Divine Comedy". Poem by Dante Alighieri. Purgatorio, Song XXXI, 128, 1321.

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• I've got a pretty good appetite right now.

  Tracey Gold

  Right Now

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• An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.

  Jose Marti

  Sacrifice, Self, Glory

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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

  Henry Fielding

  Sex, White, Desire

  'Tom Jones' (1749) bk. 6, ch. 1

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• Desire is in men a hunger, in women only an appetite.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Witty, Sex, Men

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.42, BookBaby

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• Turtle makes all men equal.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Turtles, Equal

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4011, Delphi Classics

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• The youth who follows his appetites too soon seizes the cup, before it has received its best ingredients, and by anticipating his pleasures, robs the remaining parts of life of their share, so that his eagerness only produces manhood of imbecility and an age of pain.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Pain, Age, Cups

  Oliver Goldsmith (1816). “A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature”, p.399

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• Stop short of your appetite; eat less than you are able.

  Ovid

  Food, Able

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