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A fishmonger's wife may feed of a conger; but a serving-man's wife may starve for hunger. - Unattributed Author, Health to the Gentlemanly Profession of Servingmen Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence. - Pearl Bailey Hunger is sharper than the sword. - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Honest Man's Fortune (act II, sc. 2, l. 1) Bone and Skin, two millers thin, Would starve us all, or near it; But be it known to Skin and Bone That Flesh and Blood can't bear it. - John Byrom, Epigram on Two Monopolists Famished people must be slowly nursed, And fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) When I feed the hungry, they call me a saint. When I ask why they have no food, they call me a Communist. - Helder Camara, in the New York Times, March 31, 1991 It is difficult to spear to the belly, because it has no ears. - Cato (Marcus Porcius Cato "The Elder") (a/k/a Cato the Censor), when the Romans demanded corn Hunger is the best sauce in the world. [Sp., La mejor salsa del mundo es la hambre.] - Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra), Don Quixote Enough is as good as a feast. - George Chapman, Eastward Ho! (act III, sc. 2), written by Chapman, Jonson, Marston Hunger was the best seasoning for meat. - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short) I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst. [Lat., Socratem audio dicentem, cibi condimentum essa famem, potionis sitim.] - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short), De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum (II, 28) Oliver Twist has asked for more. - Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist (ch. II) Hunger steals the memory. - Louise Erdrich Where there is Hunger, Law is not regarded; and where Law is not regarded, there will be Hunger. - Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. - Indira Gandhi They that die by famine die by inches. - Matthew (Mathew) Henry, Commentaries (Psalm LIX) Hunger is insolent, and will be fed. - Homer ("Smyrns of Chios") To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all. - Lyndon Baines Johnson Any of us would kill a cow rather than not have beef. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go. [Lat., Graeculus esuriens in coelum, jusseris, ibit.] - Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal), Satires (III, 78) Hunger is the teacher of the arts, and the bestower of invention. - Persius (Aulus Persius Flaccus) The belly is the teacher of art and the bestower of genius. [Lat., Magister artis ingeniique largitor venter.] - Persius (Aulus Persius Flaccus), Satires--Prologue (X) I suspect that hunger was my mother. [Lat., Famem fuisse suspicor matrem mihi.] - Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus), Stichus (act II, 1, 1) Obliged by hunger and request of friends. - Alexander Pope, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot--Prologue to the Satires (l. 44) Hunger is the best cook. [Lat., Fames est optimus coquus.] - Proverb, (Latin, German) Displaying page 1 of 2 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2
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