Empty Stomach Quotes

• Happiness rarely keeps company with an empty stomach

  Helen Keller

  Empty, Stomach, Company

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• No man can be wise on an empty stomach.

  George Eliot

  Wise, Men, Empty

  George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.71

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• To a man with an empty stomach food is God

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Food, Men, Poverty

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• You cannot warm the hearts of people with God's love if they have an empty stomach and cold feet.

  William Booth

  Heart, Feet, People

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• No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.

  William Cowper

  Men, Political, Politics

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• Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog.

  Robert Falcon Scott

  Dog, Reality, Fierce

  Robert Falcon Scott, Max Jones (2008). “Journals: Captain Scott's Last Expedition”, p.116, Oxford University Press

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• No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Poverty, Worship

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• An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein, George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Einstein on Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms”, p.107, Courier Corporation

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• Nobuddy ever listened t' reason on a empty stomach.

  Kin Hubbard

  Reason, Empty, Stomach

  Kin Hubbard (1926). “Abe Martin: Hoss Sense and Nonsense”

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• Few of us can accurately gauge how we will feel tomorrow or next week. That's why when you go to the supermarket on an empty stomach, you'll buy too much, and if you shop after a big meal, you'll buy too little.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Next Week, Meals, Gauges

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• It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Money, Political, Politics

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• It's no fun to protest on an empty stomach.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Fun, Empty, Stomach

  "Police and protesters square off" by Steve Almasy, www.cnn.com. August 27, 2004.

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• You can't act on an empty stomach, because you're breathing's all wrong.

  Vivien Leigh

  Breathing, Empty, Stomach

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• Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that 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

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Prayer

  Woodrow Wilson (1916). “Wit and Wisdom of Woodrow Wilson: Extracts from the Public Speeches of the Leader and Interpreter of American Democracy, with Masterpieces of Eloquence”, Best Books

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• I don't think traveling back in time on an empty stomach is a good idea.

  Félix J. Palma

  Thinking, Ideas, Empty

  Félix J. Palma (2012). “The Map of Time: A Novel”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath.... Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.

  Hippocrates

  Exercise, Opposites, People

  A Regimen for Health IV (transl. John Chadwick and W.N. Mann)

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• Note to self on waking. Lay off the beer on an empty stomach. This dream is even more screwed up than the time I had a donkey and a corkscrew. (Aiden) Donkey and a corkscrew? (Leta) I don’t know you well enough to fill you in on those details. (Aiden)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dream, Beer, Self

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Upon The Midnight Clear”, p.76, Macmillan

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• Never try to negotiate with anyone after he or she has eaten. People are best persuaded on an empty stomach. And forget power breakfasts. There is no convincing anyone of anything before 10 A.M.

  Joyce Brothers

  People, Trying, Breakfast

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• I have no intention of ending my career in a rooming house, with full scrapbooks and an empty stomach.

  Carole Landis

  Careers, House, Empty

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A mortgaged home, an empty stomach and a ragged back know no party. We will live to write the epitaphs of the old parties: "Died of general debility, old age, and chronic falsehoods."

  Mary Elizabeth Lease

  Party, Home, Writing

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• We all do that as human beings, you know? It's what my mom would call shopping on an empty stomach. You're going to buy food that you shouldn't because, at the time, you are reacting to your hunger.

  Trevor Noah

  Mom, Shopping, Hunger

  "Trevor Noah Says He Grew Up 'In The Shadow Of A Giant' (His Mom)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 16, 2016.

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• Hunger gnawed at her empty stomach again and she said aloud: 'As God is my witness, and God is my witness, the Yankees aren't going to lick me. I'm going to live through this, and when it's over, I'm never going to be hungry again. No, nor any of my folks. If I have to steal or kill - as God is my witness, I'm never going to be hungry again.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Yankees, Hunger, Stealing

  Margaret Mitchell, Pat Conroy (2008). “Gone with the Wind”, p.593, Simon and Schuster

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• Sensible people advise against drinking on an empty stomach, but to my mind it is the best sort of drinking.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Drinking, People, Mind

  Tom Hodgkinson (2007). “How to be Idle”, p.107, Penguin UK

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• The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach.

  Ibrahim Babangida

  Long, Bed, Empty

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• Somehow the killing of the giant spider, all alone by himself in the dark without the help of the wizard or the dwarves or of anyone else, made a great difference to Mr. Baggins. He felt a different person, and much fiercer and bolder in spite of an empty stomach, as he wiped his sword on the grass and put it back into its sheath.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Dark, Dwarves, Differences

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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