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| Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's APPETITE by legislation and makes crimes out of things that are not crimes. | Abraham Lincoln | 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA |
| 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 | 1828-1906, Norwegian Dramatist |
| Riches enlarge rather than satisfy APPETITEs. | Thomas Fuller | 1608-1661, British Clergyman, Author |
| America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable APPETITE for the future. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | 1906-, American Author |
| 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 | 1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister |
| 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 | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| Put a knife to thy throat, if you're a man given to APPETITE. | Bible | Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism |
| Subdue your APPETITEs, my dears, and you've conquered human nature . | Charles Dickens | 1812-1870, British Novelist |
| No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the APPETITE for power, suffering exasperates it. | E. M. Cioran | 1911-, Rumanian-born French Philosopher |
| Torment, for some men, is a need, an APPETITE, and an accomplishment. | E. M. Cioran | 1911-, Rumanian-born French Philosopher |
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| How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our APPETITE and make the world seem empty. | Eric Hoffer | 1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher |
| Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his APPETITEs, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting. | Eric Hoffer | 1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher |
| The real persuaders are our APPETITEs, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders. | Eric Hoffer | 1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher |
| The main effect of a real revolution is perhaps that it sweeps away those who do not know how to wish, and brings to the front men with insatiable APPETITEs for action, power and all that the world has to offer. | Eric Hoffer | 1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher |
| 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 | 1819-1880, British Novelist |
| Better a dish of illusion and a hearty APPETITE for life, than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith. | Harry A. Overstreet | American Psychologist |
| Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his APPETITEs and shun honours, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe. | Horace | BC 65-8, Italian Poet |
| Men are but children of a larger growth, Our APPETITEs as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain. | John Dryden | 1631-1700, British Poet, Dramatist, Critic |
| Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh APPETITEs. | John Quinton | |
| Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their APPETITEs to their destruction. | Jonathan Swift | 1667-1745, Anglo-Irish Satirist |
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| The most violent APPETITEs in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves. | Joseph Addison | 1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman |
| I only go out to get me a fresh APPETITE for being alone. | Lord Byron | 1788-1824, British Poet |
| I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the APPETITEs of the brute may survive. | Lord Chesterfield | 1694-1773, British Statesman, Author |
| 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 | 1958-, American Musician, Singer, Actress, |
| Desires are the pulses of the soul; as physicians judge by the APPETITE, so may you by desires. | Manton | |
| Reason should direct and APPETITE obey. | Marcus T. Cicero | c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician |
| ''Sex'' is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one APPETITE to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other. | Marquis De Sade | 1740-1814, French Author |
| Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our APPETITE for it is not as avid as a man s. It is in the boys gyms, the college fraternity houses, the club locker rooms, the panelled offices of business that gossip reaches its luxuriant flower. | Phyllis Mcginley | 1905-1978, American Poet, Author |
| Good habits, which bring our lower passions and APPETITEs under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted. | Ralph W. Sockman | |
| 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 | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
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| I find that the Americans have no passions, they have APPETITEs. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
| A faculty for idleness implies a catholic APPETITE and a strong sense of personal identity. | Robert Louis Stevenson | 1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist |
| Parenthood is not an object of APPETITE or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no APPETITE for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood. | Robin G. Collingwood | 1889-1943, British Historian, Philosopher |
| 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 | 1911-, Fortieth President of the USA, Actor |
| 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 | 1709-1784, British Author |
| Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than APPETITE, and those who have more APPETITE than dinners. | Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort | 1741-1794, French Writer, Journalist, Playwright |
| A well governed APPETITE is the greater part of liberty. | Seneca | 4 B.C. ¾ 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher |
| 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 colour. | Seneca | 4 B.C. ¿ 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher |
| Temperance and labor are the two best virtues. Labor whets the APPETITE, temperance curbs it. | Source Unknown | |
| If you purify your soul of attachment to and desire for things, you will understand them spiritually. If you deny your APPETITE for them, you will enjoy their truth, understanding what is certain in them. | St. John of the Cross | 1542-1591, Spanish Christian Mystic and Poet |
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| Memory is like a purse, if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the APPETITE of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof. | Thomas Fuller | 1608-1661, British Clergyman, Author |
| Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy APPETITE for the moment, but there is death in them at the end. | Tryon Edwards | 1809-1894, American Theologian |
| Choose rather to punish your APPETITEs than be punished by them. | Tyrius Maximus | |
| Always rise from the table with an APPETITE, and you will never sit down without one. | William Penn | 1644-1718, British Religious Leader, Founder of Pennsylvania |
| O curse of marriage that we can call these delicate creatures ours and not their APPETITEs! | William Shakespeare | 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor |
| Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the APPETITEs they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies. | William Shakespeare | 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor |
