Me Quotes

  • There are so few invalids who are invariably and conscientiously untemptable by those deadly domestic enemies, sweetmeats, pastry, and gravies, that the usual civilities at a meal are very like being politely assisted to the grave.

    —Willis

  • They threw their caps As they would hang them on the horns o’ the moon, Shouting their emulation.

    —Shakespeare

  • The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.

    —Johnson

  • I would applaud thee to the very echo, that should applaud again.

    —Shakespeare

  • His thirst he slakes at some pure neighboring brook, Nor seeks for sauce where Appetite stands cook,

    —Churchill

  • 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 a manhood of imbecility and an age of pain.

    —Goldsmith

  • Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with yesterday’s excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence.

    —Horace

  • Our appetites, of one or another kind, are excellent spurs to our reason, which might otherwise but feebly set about the great ends of preserving and continuing the species.

    —Lamb

  • For the sake of health, medicines are taken by weight and measure; so ought food to be, or by some similar rule.

    —Skelton

  • There are men whose stomachs are the clamorous creditors that sooner or later throw them into bankruptcy.

    —J. L. Basford

  • Hunger is a cloud out of which falls a rain of eloquence and knowledge; when the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; when it is full, the spirit becomes body.

    —Saadi

  • The stomach is a slave that must accept everything that is given to it, but which avenges wrongs as slyly as does the slave.

    —Emile Souvestre

  • The chief pleasure in eating does not consist in costly seasoning or exquisite flavor, but in yourself. Seek you for sauce in sweating.

    —Horace

  • No man’s body is as strong as his appetites, but Heaven has corrected the boundlessness of his voluptuous desires by stinting his strength and contracting his capacities.

    —Tillotson

  • A relish bestowed upon the poorer classes, that they may like what they eat; while it is seldom enjoyed by the rich, because they may eat what they like.

    —Chatfield

  • These appetites are very humiliating weaknesses. That our grace depends so largely upon animal condition is not quite flattering to those who are hyper-spiritual.

    —Beecher

  • The pleasures of eating deal with us like Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they embrace.

    —Seneca

  • Some men are born to feast, and not to fight; whose sluggish minds, even in fair honor’s field, still on their dinner turn.

    —Joanna Baillie

  • The destiny of nations depends upon the manner in which they feed themselves.

    —Brillat-Savarin

  • Doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

    —Shakespeare

  • Here is neither want of appetite nor mouths, Pray heaven we be not scant of meat or mirth.

    —Scott

  • The table is the only place where we do not get weary during the first hour.

    —Brillat-Savarin

  • All philosophy in two words, sustain and abstain.

    —Epictetus

  • Now good digestion wait on appetite, And health on both!

    —Shakespeare