(250 quotes found)
“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
“Just as appetite comes from eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning”
Igor Stravinsky
“Reason should direct and appetite obey”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.”
Lord Byron
“As we become purer channels for God's light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be.”
Marianne Williamson
“Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.”
Samuel Ullman
“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
“''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
“Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
