A strange species we are; we can stand anything God and nature can throw at us save only plenty. If I wanted to destroy a nation, I would give it too much, and I would have it on its knees, miserable, greedy, sick.
John Steinbeck to Adlai Stevenson
First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.
Tis not a year or two shows us a man: They are all but stomachs, and we all but food; They eat us hungerly, and when they are full They belch us.
The best things beyond their measure cloy.
Today the insatiable quest for profit promotes the new slavery. In bewildering ways, the new is more pernicious than the old, for the New American Slave is told he is free, and he clings to that myth as if his life depended upon it
When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.
Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated.
Profusion gives pleasure up to a point; then we become squeamish.
Satiation, like any state of vitality, always contains a degree of impudence, and that impudence emerges first and foremost when the sated man instructs the hungry one.
I love hamburgers, but if you give me a hamburger for every meal, I'm gonna tire of it.
I'm sure I've devoted enough thought to Rush Limbaugh for one lifetime.
When you've tasted excess, everything else tastes bland.
You know, there are times when you play a song over and over and over and you get a little tired of it and you let it sit for a while. It's like, you may love eating sushi, but if you eat it every single day, you're going to get a little tired of it.
I'm a girl who eats, I love to eat.
The empty, the one, the unmoved, the full, satiation, wanting nothing--that would be my evil: in short, dreamless sleep.
Take the feeling of hunger out of your gut, and you're no longer a champion.
A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
I like eating yummy things.
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
Every desire bears its death in its very gratification. Curiosity languishes under repeated stimulants, and novelties cease to excite and surprise, until at length we cannot wonder even at a miracle.
When you leave, you basically want to go eat, because I talk a lot about food in my act. So when you leave, you leave hungry.
Sex is like money; only too much is enough.
I can never finish a burger, and even if it's just a millimetre, I'll leave it. I don't know why I can't finish it. I don't know if it is physiological, but I just feel like I'm full halfway through it.
Actually, I jade very quickly. Once is usually enough. Either once only, or every day. If you do something once it’s exciting, and if you do it every day it’s exciting. But if you do it, say, twice or just almost every day, it’s not good any more.
Even popularity can be overdone. In Rome, along at first, you are full of regrets that Michelangelo died; but by and by, you only regret that you didn't see him do it.
