The Web: Hunger

Compiler by The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations


"Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it."
- Mary Ritter Beard

"A dog starved at his master's gate
Predicts the ruin of the state.
- William Blake

"There's no sauce in the world like hunger."
- Miguel de Cervantes

"Society is composed of two great classes -- those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners."
- Sebastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort

"The Queen has lands and gold, Mother
The Queen has lands and gold,
While you are forced to your empty breast
A skeleton Babe to hold..."
- Amelia Edwards

"Hunger is insolent, and will be fed."
- Homer

"The belly is the reason why man does not mistake himself for a god."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"A hungry man is an angry man."
- English Proverb

"You cannot reason with a hungry belly; it has no ears."
- Greek Proverb

"A hungry man is not a free man."
- Adlai Stevenson

"If sometimes our poor people have had to die of starvation, it is not that God didn't care for them, but because you and I didn't give, were not an instrument of love in the hands of God, to give them that bread, to give them that clothing; because we did not recognize him, when once more Christ came in distressing disguise, in the hungry man, in the lonely man, in the homeless child, and seeking for shelter."
- Mother Theresa

"Feast, and your halls are crowded;
Fast, and the world goes by."
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach."
- Woodrow Wilson



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