Stomach Quotes

• When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

  St. Jerome

  Food, Perspective, Catholic

  St. Jerome (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)”, p.248, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Peace in the head, peace in the stomach.

  Jean-Bertrand Aristide

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• He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

  Samuel Johnson

  Motivational, Fitness, Food

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 1, p. 467 (5 August 1763)

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• To obtain an assured favorable response from people, it is better to offer them something for their stomachs instead of their brains.

  Albert Einstein

  Witty, Offering, People

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.187, Princeton University Press

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• A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.

  St. Jerome

  Exercise, Saint, Fats

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• The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.

  Fanny Fern

  Sex, Food, Heart

  Fanny Fern (1986). “Ruth Hall and Other Writings”, p.32, Rutgers University Press

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• When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score.

  Enoch Powell

  Emotion, Score

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• When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.

  Euripides

  Money, Food, Men

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

  William Cowper

  Men, Political, Politics

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

  Michael Bloomberg

  Fun, Empty, Protest

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

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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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• Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.

  Athenaeus

  Nature, Principles, Investigation

  Athenaeus (1854). “The Deipnosophists Or Banquet of the Learned of Athenaeus: With an Appendix of Poetical Fragments, Rendered Into English Verse by Various Authors and a General Index : in Three Volumes”, p.439

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• A hungry stomach cannot hear.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Hungry

  "Fables". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, Book IX, fable 18, 1668 - 1679.

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• For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.270, Wordsworth Editions

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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 know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.

  Elizabeth I

  Leadership, Courage, Kings

  Speech to troops at Tilbury, England (1588).

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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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• On learning to swim: I'm too big to have some woman hold my stomach and say 'Now kick your feet.'

  Will Smith

  Feet, Swim, Holding On

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• The joy of being a consumer is that it doesnt require thought, responsibility, self-awareness or shame: All you have to do is obey the first urge that gurgles up from your stomach. And then obey the next. And the next. And the next.

  Matt Taibbi

  Responsibility, Self, Joy

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• By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.

  Winston Churchill

  Kindness, Inspiration, Generosity

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• An army marches on its stomach.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Food, Army

  Attributed in Wash. Post, 18 Sept. 1898. According to the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, this was "probably condensed from a long passage in E. A. de Las Cases Memorial de Ste-Helene (1823) vol. 4, 14 Nov. 1816; also attributed to Frederick the Great, in Notes and Queries 10 March 1866." The 1866 attribution to Frederick is worded "an army moves on (or by) its stomach."

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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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• A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.

  Frank A. Clark

  Family, Children, Parenting

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• People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Business, People, Doe

  Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.165, Diderot Publishing

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• He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.

  Saadi

  God, Worship, Slave

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