Hunger
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Hunger is a sensation caused by insufficient food.
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- You cannot create reforms with hungry people. Some 75% of the Iranian people's demands are economic... and only 5% cultural and political.
- Ali Larijani, Profile: Ali Larijani. BBC News (20 October 2007). Retrieved on 2007-10-20.
- The slippers of the mortal Earth, Now touched the chest of the Moon. Oh, It is shameful that the misery of hunger is still continuing as it was in the past.
- It was a warm day and he had a long way to go. He hadn't gone more than half-way when a sort of funny feeling began to creep all over him. It began at the tip of his nose and trickled all through him and out at the soles of his feet. It was just as if somebody inside him were saying "Now then, Pooh, time for a little something".
- A. A. Milne, in Winnie-the-Pooh (1926)
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations[edit]
- Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 381-82.
- Hunger is sharper than the sword.
- Beaumont and Fletcher, The Honest Man's Fortune, Act II, scene 2, line 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.
- It is difficult to speak to the belly, because it has no ears.
- Cato the Censor, when the Romans demanded corn. See Plutarch's Life of Cato the Censor.
- La mejor salsa del mundo es la hambre.
- Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
- Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote.
- Enough is as good as a feast.
- George Chapman, Eastward Ho!, Act III, scene 2. Written by Chapman, Jonson, Marston.
- Socratem audio dicentem, cibi condimentum esse famem, potionis sitim.
- I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.
- Cicero, De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum, II. 28.
- Oliver Twist has asked for more.
- Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist, Chapter II.
- A fishmonger's wife may feed of a conger; but a serving-man's wife may starve for hunger.
- Health to the Gentlemanly Profession of Servingmen (1598).
- They that die by famine die by inches.
- Matthew Henry, Commentaries, Psalm LIX.
- Græculus esuriens in cœlum, jusseris, ibit.
- Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go.
- Juvenal, Satires, III. 78.
- Magister artis ingeniique largitor venter.
- The belly is the teacher of art and the bestower of genius.
- Persius, Satires, Prologue. X.
- Famem fuisse suspicor matrem mihi.
- I suspect that hunger was my mother.
- Plautus, Stichus, Act II. 1. 1.
- Obliged by hunger and request of friends.
- Alexander Pope, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, Prologue to the Satires, line 44.
- La ventre affamé n'point d'oreilles.
- Hungry bellies have no ears.
- François Rabelais, Pantagruel (1532), Book III, Chapter XV.
- Nec rationem patitur, nec æquitate mitigatur nec ulla prece flectitur, populus esuriens.
- A hungry people listens not to reason, nor cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.
- Seneca, De Brevitate Vitæ, XVIII.
- They said they were an-hungry; sigh'd 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.- William Shakespeare, Coriolanus (c. 1607-08), Act I, scene 1, line 209.
- Our stomachs
Will make what's homely savoury.- William Shakespeare, Cymbeline (1611), Act III, scene 6, line 32.
- Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look.
- William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar (1599), Act I, scene 2, line 194.
- My more-having would be as a sauce
To make me hunger more.- William Shakespeare, Macbeth (1605), Act IV, scene 3, line 81.
- Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave.
- James Thomson, The Seasons, Winter (1726), line 393.
