quotations about the belly
The hungry belly has no ears.
FRANÇOIS RABELAIS
Works
When the belly is full, the bones would be at rest.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Polite Conversation
Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles.
BIBLE
Job 32:19
He had a broad face and a little round belly,
That shook when he laughed like a bowlful of jelly.
CLEMENT CLARKE MOORE
A Visit from St. Nicholas
A full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.
ST. CATHERINE OF SIENA
attributed, A Women's History of the Christian Church
For, as I have often told you before and now tell you again even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is their shame. Their mind is set on earthly things.
APOSTLE PAUL
Philippians 3:18-19
Every investigation which is guided by the principles of nature fixes its ultimate aim upon gratifying the stomach.
ATHENAEUS
Deipnosophists
The stomach is the teacher of the arts and the dispenser of invention.
AULUS PERSIUS FLACCUS
prologue, Satires
No clock is more regular than the Belly.
FRANÇOIS RABELAIS
Works
That master of arts, that dispenser of genius, the Belly.
PERSIUS
Satires
A full belly makes a dull brain.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1758
A full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.
MARK TWAIN
The Prince and the Pauper
No barricado for a belly; know't;
It will let in and out the enemy
With bag and baggage.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The Winter's Tale
The eye is bigger than the belly.
GEORGE HERBERT
Jacula Prudentum
The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
The belly is the reason that man does not easily mistake himself for a god.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Beyond Good and Evil
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Einstein on Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms
When belly with bad pains doth swell,
It matters nought what else goes well.
SA'DI
The Gulistan
After a full belly all is poetry.
FRANK MCCOURT
'Tis: A Memoir
I said "doctor, ain't there nothin' I can take?"
I said "doctor, to relieve this belly ache"
HARRY NILSSON
Coconut