Belly Quotes - Page 3

• There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Sick, Laughing, Lines

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• A full Belly makes a dull Brain: The Muses starve in a Cook's Shop.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Food, Brain, Dull

  Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.285, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Many of my cartoons are not a belly laugh. I go for nostalgia, the lump in the throat, the tear in the eye, the tug in the heart.

  Bil Keane

  Heart, Eye, Laughing

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• What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.

  John Heywood

  Devil

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• I'm really critical of my posture, it makes a big difference. And I try to suck my belly in. Everyone should do that whether you're on a red carpet or not. Even if you're just going out to dinner with your boyfriend you should try and suck it in.

  Katy Perry

  Differences, Your Boyfriend, Trying

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• Now, the Star-Belly Sneetches had bellies with stars. The Plain-Belly Sneetches had none upon thars.

  Dr. Seuss

  Stars

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• I don't need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It's very much about style and substance and humor, interest, curiosity and really being smart.

  Kate Walsh

  Smart, Style, Curiosity

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

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• Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

  Jonathan Swift

  Alcohol, Liquor, Lost

  Jonathan Swift (1761). “The Works of Dr Jonathan Swift, Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin. Accurately Corrected by the Best Editions. With the Author's Life and Character; Notes Historical, Critical, and Explanatory; Tables of Contents, and Indexes. More Complete Than Any Preceding Edition. In Eight Volumes”, p.322

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• The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Past, Ungrateful, Favors

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (2005). “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: A Novel”, p.131, Macmillan

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• The belly is the reason that man does not easily mistake himself for a god.

  David Zindell

  Mistake, Men, Doe

  "War in Heaven". Book by David Zindell, 1998.

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• Everything's better with some wine in the belly.

  George R. R. Martin

  Wine, Lannisters

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• To a haughty belly, kindness is hard to swallow and harder to digest.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Kindness, Harder, Haughty

  Zora Neale Hurston (1995). “Zora Neale Hurston: Novels and Stories: Jonah's Gourd Vine / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Moses, Man of the Mountain / Seraph on the Suwanee / Selected Stories”

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• Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish and of forgetting that the fish has a hook in his mouth, his gullet, or his belly and that his gameness is really an extreme of panic in which he runs, leaps, and pulls to get away until he dies. It would seem to be enough advantage to the angler that the fish has the hook in his mouth rather than the angler.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Running, Battle, Mouths

  "Atlantic Game Fishing". Book by S. Kip Farrington Jr., 1937.

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• Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men's minds are also injured by them.

  Mencius

  Men, Mind, Mouths

  Mencius, James Legge (1875). “The Life and Works of Mencius: With Essays and Notes”, p.357

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• Keep belly lightly loaded, if mind would wisdom see;For bodies crammed to bursting, make empty souls to be.

  Saadi

  Soul, Mind, Body

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• I'm not Catholic, but I gave up picking my belly button for lint.

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Humor, Catholic

  Twitter post from Mar 31, 2010

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• A full Belly is the Mother of all Evil.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Mother, Food, Evil

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• When we were growing up, our mother taught us never to have your belly button exposed.

  Mary-Kate Olsen

  Mother, Growing Up, Taught Us

  "Get to Know the Row" by Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 11, 2010.

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• One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Clever, Men, Laughing

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.226, Penguin

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• In the pregnancy process I have come to realize how much of the burden is on the female partner. She's got a construction zone going on in her belly.

  Al Roker

  Pregnancy, Female, Realizing

  Al Roker (2000). “Don't Make Me Stop this Car!: Adventures in Fatherhood”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• I have a little bit of a belly, a tiny bit of pooch. It's the one thing I don't want to lose. I just like having some softness. If I lose that, then Tom might leave me.

  Nicole Kidman

  Tiny, Want, Littles

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• He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

  John Lennon

  Children, Ocean, Sleep

  "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Fatherhood". Book by Kevin Osborn, p. 134, October 1, 1999.

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• Belly was not a bad movie. It was visually very interesting.

  Orlando Jones

  Interesting, Bad Movies, Very Interesting

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• If I could only get people to rub my belly for good lucky and then throw money in my fountain, it'd be a perfect world.

  Christopher Meloni

  People, Perfect, Lucky

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• Occasionally, when I run into a great bass backstage at a festival I'll play a few notes on the low E string, just to feel the instrument vibrate against my belly.

  Steve Swallow

  Running, Play, Bass

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