quotations about the belly
The belly robs the back.
JAMES HOWELL
Proverbs
It is a difficult matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.
MARCUS CATO
Plutarch's Lives
A belly full of gluttony will never study willingly.
THOMAS FULLER
Gnomologia
you don't say no
with an empty belly
and a barbed wire bonnet on a wolf
hangin' at your door
PATTY LARKIN
"Wolf at the Door"
Your belly chimes, it's time to go to dinner.
JOHN RAY
English Proverbs
He who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
The Life of Samuel Johnson
My belly's as cold as if I had swallowed snowballs for pills.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The Merry Wives of Windsor
To a haughty belly, kindness is hard to swallow and harder to digest.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON
Moses: Man of the Mountain
Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Polite Conversation
What comedy, what actor is better than a disappointed belly?
JUVENAL
Satires
A bellyfull is a bellyfull.
FRANÇOIS RABELAIS
Works
When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.
SAADI
attributed, Wise Old Sayings
The vilest of beasts is the belly.
GREEK PROVERB
What avails it us to have our bellies full of meat if it be not digested?
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
Essays
When the belly is full the mind is amongst the maids.
UNKNOWN
MS. Proverbs
May God look with hatred on the belly and its food; it is through them that chastity breaks down.
PALLADAS
attributed, Greek Anthology
A full stomach is the Mother of all Evil.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1744
I can reason down or deny everything except this perpetual belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Representative Men
A full belly neither fights nor flies well.
GEORGE HERBERT
Jacula Prudentum
A gross belly does not produce a refined mind.
ST. JEROME
attributed, The Home Book of Quotations