M. F. K. Fisher Quotes

The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture.

Hunger and self-control do not go hand in hand.

People don't eat in the long run. They eat every day.

Man cannot live by bread alone. Every once in awhile he needs a salad.

Appetite, n. An instinct thoughtfully implanted by Providence as a solution to the labor question.

I'm hungry, Garion, and I don't think well when I'm hungry." "That might explain a lot," Beldin noted blandly. "We should have fed you more often when you were younger."

It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.

You will be tempted by the need to feed yourself.

A human being is primarily a bag for putting food into.

Nobuddy ever listened t' reason on a empty stomach.

We can't live without eating, but we don't live to eat.

I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.

I think hunger is a natural state of being for most people. I mean, hunger is a desire - and you don't only have physical hunger, you have emotional hunger. A lot of my hungers are, in fact, emotional. I think a lot of fat people's hungers are emotional. There are things we very much want, and it can be so difficult to satisfy those hungers. Yet we try. We try so hard.

If you're not hungry enough to eat an apple, you're not hungry.

The appetite grows with eating.

People take the feeling of full for granted.

Who riseth from a feast With that keen appetite that he sits down?

Our senses, our appetite, and our passions are our lawful and faithful guides in things that relate solely to this life.

It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.

I only read what I am hungry for at the moment when I have an appetite for it, and then I do not read, I eat.

A fully belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

Denial of one appetite sharpens the others.

One time, my mother told me that I always eat like I'll never see food again. And I said, "I won't unless I bring it home." That shut her up.

You can’t eat beauty. It doesn’t feed you.

Stop eating before you're full.