“My appetite comes to me while eating.”
Book III, Ch. 9. Of Vanity
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Appetite comes with eating, says Angeston. But the thirst goes away with drinking.”
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Gargantua (1534), Chapter 5.
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "Appetite comes with eating, says Angeston. But the thirst goes away with drinking." by Francois Rabelais?
Francois Rabelais 105
major French Renaissance writer 1494–1553Related quotes
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
(1813–1843) British writer
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 153.
Sören Kierkegaard
(1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism
Source: 1840s, Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions (1845), p. 83
“It’s just that I’d rather die of drink than of thirst.”
Ian Fleming
book
Thunderball
Source: Thunderball
“Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.”
Socrates
(-470–-399 BC) classical Greek Athenian philosopher
Plutarch Moralia, How the Young Man Should Study Poetry
Variant translation: Base men live to eat and drink, and good men eat and drink to live.
Plutarch
“The man who eats with the greatest appetite has the least need of delicacies.”
Socrates
(-470–-399 BC) classical Greek Athenian philosopher
Diogenes Laertius
“183. Where the drink goes in there the wit goes out.”
George Herbert
(1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
Plutarch
(46–127) ancient Greek historian and philosopher
How a Young Man ought to hear Poems, 4
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)