“Trash has given us an appetite for art”
Pauline Kael
“In our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it is our ideals we have consumed, and we have not been enlarged by the feasts but only diminished”
Pico Iyer
“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
“Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.”
Emile M. Cioran
“Anything that would suggest a deteriorating appetite for US financial assets would undermine the dollar.”
Neil MacKinnon
“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
“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