Within me I had a dearth of that inner food which is thyself, my God—although that dearth caused me no hunger. And I remained without any appetite for incorruptible food—not because I was already filled with it, but because the emptier I became the more I loathed it. Because of this my soul was unhealthy; and, full of sores, it exuded itself forth, itching to be scratched by scraping on the things of the senses.
And gazed around them to the left and rightWith the prophetic eye of appetite.
I call that mind free, which masters the senses, which protects itself against animal appetites, which contemns pleasure and pain in comparison to its own energy, which penetrates beneath the body and recognises its own reality and greatness, which passes life, not in asking what it shall eat or drink, but in hungering, thirsting, and seeking after righteousness.
Govern well thy appetite, lest SinSurprise thee, and her black attendant Death.
Epicurean cooksSharpen with cloyless sauce his appetite.
Read o'er this;What appetite you have.
Now good digestion wait on appetite,And health on both!
Who riseth from a feastWith that keen appetite that he sits down?
Doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his youth, that he cannot endure in his age.
Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite?
The sweetest honeyAnd in the taste confounds the appetite.
We have no sympathy with those who are controlled by ideas and passions which we neither understand nor feel. Thus they who live to satisfy the appetites do not believe it possible to live in and for the soul.
And through the hall there walked to and fro And knew them how to order without blame.
His thirst he slakes at some pure neighboring brook,Nor seeks for sauce where Appetite stands cook.
I find no abhorring in my appetite.
Keen appetiteAnd quick digestion wait on you and yours.
My appetite comes to me while eating.
Put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life—a firmness of mind and mastery of appetite.
Young children and chickens would ever be eating.