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to eat and drink in moderation, and to curb one's sexual appetites. In the long run, a deep friendship will make us more content than a frenzied orgy.
— Yuval Noah Harari
The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
The unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites.
— Phyllis Bottome
It's no good to want to win still more when you have already won.
— Eiji Yoshikawa
We become accomplices in evil every time we seek to soothe the unslakable appetites of the crime family that sits in Pyongyang.
— Christopher Hitchens
We all have hometown appetites,
— Clementine Paddleford
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
In society just as in the soul,
when hierarchies abdicate the appetites rule. — Nicolas Gomez Davila
when hierarchies abdicate the appetites rule. — Nicolas Gomez Davila
The curse of marriage
That we can call these delicate creatures ours
And not their appetites! — William Shakespeare
That we can call these delicate creatures ours
And not their appetites! — William Shakespeare
The sole purpose of existence is to open oneself to sensation and to satisfy all appetites as they arise.
— Dean Koontz
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety. Other women cloy The appetites they feed, but she makes hungry
— James Shapiro
We each after a while have to become reconciled to what it is that our talents and appetites lead us to.
— Tobias Wolff
The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of base and sullen appetites.
— George A. Smith
Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification.
— George Bernard Shaw
Nearly everyone in the world has appetites and impulses, trigger emotions, islands of selfishness, lusts just beneath the surface.
— John Steinbeck
Love on one side was defeating love on the other, because it was characteristic of men to deny hunger once their appetites were satisfied.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It not in our power not to be stirred mentally by our appetites but it is in our power to translate them or not to translate them into actions.
— Eustace Mandeville Wetenhall Tillyard
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
Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them-almost all women; a vast number of clever, hardheaded men.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
When I work I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whining grunting piglets of the appetites.
— Marge Piercy
The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions
— Stephen R. Covey
Necessity is the mother of all appetites. What you need in order to survive, you learn to love,
— Jeaniene Frost
After the gratifications of brutish appetites are past, the greatest pleasure then is to get rid of that which entertained it.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Take not for friends wolves and bankers; they both have voracious appetites - rjs
— Rassool Jibraeel Snyman
What is the motive which operates in every man's breast to counteract the impulse towards the gratification of his wants and appetites?
— Jean-Baptiste Say
Resistance, whether to one's appetites or to the ways of the world, is a chief factor in the shaping of character.
— Eric Hoffer
I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
sampled the tasty food until, appetites sated,
— Karen Cogan
Every human being has appetites difficult to control but far fewer have humility, gentleness, and an awareness of their weaknesses.
— Dean Koontz
Teenage boys were just a loose aggregation of appetites.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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.
— Diane Arbus
Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food.
— Kate Smith
My sister once warned me that a man who blushed so easily was probably a Man With Appetites.
— Meljean Brook
He might be living on mice, but Chesterton does not look like an animal who is governed by his appetites. He's an ascetic, if Cathbad ever saw one.
— Elly Griffiths
I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
We seem to live in an age where we are quietly appalled by the idea of appetites, whether they be for sex, food or diamonds.
— Jojo Moyes
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .
— Dorothy Canfield Fisher
I realized I could only play-act at the spiritual life as long as my appetites were stronger than my empathy.
— Victoria Moran
We must be careful not to let our current appetites steal away any chance we might have for a future feast
— Jim Rohn
I'm a sucker for interiors and carefully, beautifully filmed people sitting in a big room. My appetites are simple.
— Nicholson Baker
From the earliest times, female domestic servants have been viewed as snacks for the sexual appetites of their masters.
— Eric Berkowitz
I have a lot of appetites and try to revel in almost everything, so inspiration can even come from a well-appointed submarine sandwich, you know?
— Patrick Fabian
When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.
— Dale Carnegie
To be driven by our appetites alone is slavery, while to obey a law that we have imposed on ourselves is freedom.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied.
— Ernest Shackleton
We all throw away perfectly wonderful lives because our foolish, sinful appetites take us places we should not go.
— Liz Curtis Higgs
For now, bread and mead call us, appetites whetted, to witness what I have been nursing, encased in iron, licked by flame, and tended with relish.
— Kevin Hearne
Growing up means curbing appetites, shifting from "me" to "we," understanding private choices have social consequences and public outcomes.
— Jen Hatmaker
The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders.
— Eric Hoffer
Self-control is one mark of a mature person; it applies to control of language, physical treatment of others, and the appetites of the body.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.
— William Ruckelshaus
Our bodies are these collections of appetites that veer out of control and habits that drag us down paths we don't want to travel.
— John Ortberg
There is a law in each well-ordered nation
To curb those raging appetites that are
Most disobedient and refractory. — William Shakespeare
To curb those raging appetites that are
Most disobedient and refractory. — William Shakespeare
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
I'm not going to give my love a set of flimsy fucking brushes, am I? Only long, hard, phallic shaped things will do for a girl of her appetites.
— Kylie Scott
This appetite to choose death by pleasure if it is available to choose - this appetite of your people unable to choose appetites, this is the death.
— David Foster Wallace
The foes from whom we pray to be delivered are our own passions, appetites, and follies; and against these there is always need that we should war.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their appetites.
— Edmund Burke
appetites of such a girl. I was nearly certain, she would attempt something, and soon. February 5, 1541
— E. Knight
The lust to meet authors ranks low, I think, on the roll of holy appetites; but it is an authentic pang.
— John Updike
My point is that Satan uses our keenest appetites to tempt us.
— James C. Dobson
To change, you must face the dragon of your appetites with another dragon: the life-energy of the soul.
— Rumi
Too much of anything, even a good thing, may prove to be our undoing ... [We] need ... to set definite boundaries on our appetites.
— William Bennett
She had appetites in plenty: she spent all her strength in repressing them and she underwent this denial in anger.
— Simone De Beauvoir
We are said to be irrational slaves to our whims and appetites, addicted to sex, smoking, and electronic gadgets.
— Anonymous
Few men can resist expressing their appetites when they're making a fantasy about themselves.
— John Le Carre
Comedians still make fun of Bill's out-of-control appetites, but with Hillary, the mockery is about how she lets nothing be out of control.
— Rich Lowry
Salt represents the civilized: it requires know-how to get it, and a sophisticated combination of cooking and spoilt, jaded appetites to need it.
— Margaret Visser
[this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it
— Aristotle.
Other women cloy/The appetites they feed, but she makes hungry/Where most she satisfies.
— Ian McEwan
As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the 'spirited element.'
— C.S. Lewis
To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which if not a virtue, is the groundwork of a virtue.
— Samuel Johnson
The appetites of the body were private battles.
— Elizabeth Strout