Definition of Appetite

	Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog Now!
Home - Quote Topics - Quotes of the Day - Quote Keywords - Author Types - Quotation Trivia Authors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Appetite

The desire for some personal gratification, either of the body or of the mind.

Desire for, or relish of, food or drink; hunger.

Any strong desire; an eagerness or longing.

Tendency; appetency.

The thing desired.

Related Definitions:

An, Any, Appetency, Body, Desire, Desired, Drink, Eagerness, Either, Food, For, Gratification, Hunger, Longing, Mind, Of, Or, Personal, Relish, Some, Strong, Tendency, The, Thing

Appetite Quotations

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Ronald Reagan

Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger.
Bill Cosby

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.
Leo Tolstoy

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.
Steven Spielberg

"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

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Appetite Translations

appetite in Danish is appetit
appetite in Dutch is graagte, eetlust, hongerigheid, trek
appetite in Finnish is ruokahalu
appetite in German is Appetit {m}
appetite in Italian is appetito
appetite in Latin is orexis
appetite in Portuguese is apetite
appetite in Spanish is apetito, gana
appetite in Swedish is aptit, matlust

Quotes