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When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what
is before thee:
And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to
appetite.
Author: Bible
Source: Proverbs (ch. 23, v. 1-2)
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And gazed around them to the left and right
With the prophetic eye of appetite.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Don Juan (canto V, st. 50)
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His thirst he slakes at some pure neighboring brook,
Nor seeks for sauce where Appetite stands cook.
Author: Charles Churchill
Source: Gotham III (l. 133)
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My soul tasted that heavenly food, which gives new appetite while
it satiates.
[It., L'anima mia gustava di quel cibo,
Che saziando di se, di se s'asseta.]
Author: Dante ("Dante Alighieri")
Source: Purgatorio (XXXI, 128)
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My forces are not enfeebled, I find no decay in my strength; my
provisions are not cut off, I find no abhorring in mine appetite;
my counsels are not corrupted nor infatuated, I find no false
apprehensions to work upon mine understanding; and yet they see
that invisibly, and I feel that insensibly, the disease prevails.
Author: Dr. John Donne
Source: Devotions (X, Meditation)
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Keen appetite
And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
Author: John Dryden
Source: Cleomenes (act IV, sc. 1)
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Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin
Surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.
Author: John Milton
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. VII, l. 546)
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My appetite comes to me while eating.
Author: Michael Eyquen de Montaigne
Source: Essays--Of Vanity (bk. III, ch. IX)
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"Appetite comes with eating," says Angeston, "but thirst departs
with drinking."
[Fr., "L'appetit vient en mangeant," disoit Angeston, "mais la
soif e'en va en beuvant."]
Author: Francois Rabelais
Source: Works (bk. I, ch. V)
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Epicurean cooks
Sharpen with cloyless sauce his appetite,
That sleep and feeding may prorogue his honor
Evan till a Lethe'd dulness--
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Antony and Cleopatra (Pompey at II, i)
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Read o'er this
And after, this, and then to breakfast with
What appetite you have.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Life of King Henry the Eighth (King Henry at III, ii)
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Now good digestion wait on appetite,
And health on both!
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Macbeth (Macbeth at III, iv)
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Who riseth from a feast
With that keen appetite that he sits down?
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Gratiano at II, vi)
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But doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his
youth that he cannot endure in his age.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Much Ado About Nothing (Benedick at II, iii)
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The sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness
And in the taste confounds the appetite.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Friar Laurence at II, vi)
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The sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Friar Laurence at II, vi)
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Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite
By bare imagination of a feast?
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (Bolingbroke at I, iii)
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And through the hall there walked to and fro
A jolly yeoman, marshall of the same,
Whose name was Appetite; he did bestow
Both guestes and meate, whenever in they came,
And knew them how to order without blame.
Author: Edmund Spenser
Source: The Faerie Queene (bk. II, canto IX, st. 28)
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Young children and chickens would ever be eating.
Author: Thomas Tusser
Source: Points of Huswifery--Super Matters (V)
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