Great Throughts Treasury

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Tyron Edwards

The first impulse of conscience is apt to be right; the first impulse of appetite or passion is generally wrong. We should be faithful to the former, but suspicious of the latter.

Appetite | Character | Conscience | Impulse | Passion | Right | Wisdom | Wrong |

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Temperance and labor are the two best physicians; the one sharpens the appetite - the other prevents indulgence to excess.

Appetite | Character | Excess | Indulgence | Labor |

Christian Nestell Bovee

There is no sense of weariness like that which closes a day of eager and unintermitted pursuit of pleasure. The apple is eaten and the core sticks in the throat. Expectation has given way to ennui, and appetite to satiety.

Appetite | Day | Ennui | Expectation | Pleasure | Satiety | Sense | Wisdom | Expectation |

Brillat-Savarin, fully Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin NULL

In compelling man to eat that he may live, Nature gives an appetite to invite him, and pleasure to reward him.

Appetite | Man | Nature | Pleasure | Reward | Wisdom |

Richard Francis Burton, fully Sir Richard Francis Burton

Conquer thyself. Till you hast done this, thou are but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own.

Appetite | Wisdom |

Tyron Edwards

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.

Appetite | Death | Wisdom |

Georges Duhamel, Pen name Denis Thevenin

What distinguishes man from his innocent brothers, the animals... is not language, nor reason, nor even civilization... it is man's enormous appetite for suffering.

Appetite | Civilization | Language | Man | Reason | Suffering | Wisdom |

Benjamin Franklin

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.

Ambition | Appetite | Fortune | Good | Indulgence | Present | Wisdom |

Walter Savage Landor

Belief in a future life is the appetite of reason.

Appetite | Belief | Future | Life | Life | Reason | Wisdom |

John Locke

Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge. One great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.

Appetite | Children | Curiosity | Knowledge | Reason | Time | Wisdom |

William Shenstone

It happens a little unluckily that the persons who have the most infinite contempt of money are the same that have the strongest appetite for the pleasures it procures.

Appetite | Contempt | Little | Money | Wisdom |

H. G. Wells, fully Herbert George Wells

The appetite grows with what it feeds on.

Appetite | Wisdom |

Nancy Forest-Flier

Disciplining one’s appetite may be the biggest spiritual challenge many of us will face this side of dying. In a world where the future of the planet depends on how many of us will agree to say not to excessive lifestyles, fasting can teach us that physical satisfaction is not the purpose of life.

Appetite | Challenge | Future | Life | Life | Purpose | Purpose | Teach | Will | World |

John Charles Polanyi

In education the appetite does indeed grow with eating. I have never known anyone to abandon study because they knew too much.

Appetite | Education | Study |

Edmund Burke

Curiosity is the most superficial of all the affections; it changes its object perpetually; it has an appetite which is very sharp, but very easily satisfied, and it has always an appearance of giddiness, restlessness and anxiety.

Anxiety | Anxiety | Appearance | Appetite | Curiosity | Object | Restlessness |