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A fishmonger's wife may feed of a conger; but a serving-man's
wife may starve for hunger.
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: Health to the Gentlemanly Profession of Servingmen
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Hunger is sharper than the sword.
Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
Source: The Honest Man's Fortune (act II, sc. 2, l. 1)
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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.
Author: John Byrom
Source: Epigram on Two Monopolists
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It is difficult to spear to the belly, because it has no ears.
Author: Cato (Marcus Porcius Cato "The Elder") (a/k/a Cato the Censor)
Source: when the Romans demanded corn
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Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
[Sp., La mejor salsa del mundo es la hambre.]
Author: Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
Source: Don Quixote
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Enough is as good as a feast.
Author: George Chapman
Source: Eastward Ho! (act III, sc. 2), written by Chapman, Jonson, Marston
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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.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum (II, 28)
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Oliver Twist has asked for more.
Author: Charles Dickens
Source: Oliver Twist (ch. II)
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There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear
to them except in the form of bread.
Author: Charles Dickens
Source: Oliver Twist (ch. II)
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They that die by famine die by inches.
Author: Matthew (Mathew) Henry
Source: Commentaries (Psalm LIX)
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Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go.
[Lat., Graeculus esuriens in coelum, jusseris, ibit.]
Author: Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal)
Source: Satires (III, 78)
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The belly is the teacher of art and the bestower of genius.
[Lat., Magister artis ingeniique largitor venter.]
Author: Persius (Aulus Persius Flaccus)
Source: Satires--Prologue (X)
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I suspect that hunger was my mother.
[Lat., Famem fuisse suspicor matrem mihi.]
Author: Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Source: Stichus (act II, 1, 1)
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Obliged by hunger and request of friends.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot--Prologue to the Satires (l. 44)
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Hungry bellies have no cars.
[Fr., La ventre affame n'point d'oreilles.]
Author: Francois Rabelais
Source: Pantagruel (bk. III, ch. XV)
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A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor
is bent by any prayers.
[Lat., Nec rationem patitur, nec aequitate mitigatur nec ulla
prece flectitur, populus esuriens.]
Author: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Source: De Brevitate Vitoe (XVIII)
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They said they were anhungry; sighed forth proverbs--
That hunger broke stone walls, that dogs must eat,
That meat was made for mouths, that the gods sent not
Corn for the rich men only. With these shreds
They vented their complainings, which being answered
And a petition granted them, a strange one,
To break the heart of generosity,
And make bold power look pale, they threw their caps
As they would hang them on the horns o' th' moon,
Shouting their emulation.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Coriolanus (Marcius at I, i)
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Come, our stomachs
Will make what's homely savory.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Cymbeline (Belarius at III, vi)
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Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Julius Caesar (Julius Caesar at I, ii)
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With this there grows
In my most ill-compos'd affection such
A stanchless avarice that, were I King,
I should cut off the nobles for their lands,
Desire his jewels, and this other's house,
And my more-having would be as a sauce
To make me hunger more, that I should forge
Quarrels unjust against the good and loyal,
Destroying them for wealth.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Macbeth (Malcolm at IV, iii)
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I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Source: Major Barbara
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The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the
hunger for bread.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Source: Major Barbara
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Cruel as death, and hungry at the grave.
Author: James Thomson (1)
Source: Seasons--Winter (l. 393)
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Hunger that persuades to evil.
[Lat., Malesuada fames.]
Author: Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil)
Source: The Aeneid (VI, 276)
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At the working man's house hunger looks in but dares not enter.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Source: None
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Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and the expression of energy associated with it.
Author: Mary Ritter Beard
Source: None
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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
Author: Aristophanes
Source: None
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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Source: None
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The pathos of man is that he hungers for personal fulfillment and for a sense of community with others.
Author: J. Saunders Redding
Source: None
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"Bread that this house may never know hunger, salt that life may always have flavor."
Author: Donna Reed
Source: None
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There are so many hungry people that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
Author: Corita Kent
Source: None
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