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Hunger is sharper than the sword.—BEAUMONT & FLETCHER, The Honest Man's Fortune
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There's no sauce in the world like hunger.—CERVANTES, Don Quixote
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Oliver Twist has asked for more.—DICKENS, Oliver Twist
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An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.—ALBERT EINSTEIN, Cosmic Religion
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Hungry rooster don't cackle w'en he fine a wum.—JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS, Plantation Proverbs
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They that die by famine die by inches.—MATTHEW HENRY, Commentaries
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Hunger is insolent, and will be fed.—HOMER, Odyssey
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Any of us would kill a cow rather than not have beef.—SAMUEL JOHNSON, Boswell: Life
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No hunger of an empty, food-entreating belly gives such an ache as the coward heart, which cries for comfort in distress.—LIAM O'FLAHERTY, Two Years
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So if unprejudiced you scan
The goings of this clock-work, man,
You find a hundred movements made
By fine devices in his head;
But 'tis the stomach's solid stroke
That tells his being what's o'clock.—MATTHEW PRIOR, Alma
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A hungry man smells meat afar off.—Proverb
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Hunger is not dainty.—Proverb
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Hunger makes hard beans sweet.—Proverb
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Hunger and cold deliver a man up to his enemy.—Proverb
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A hungry man is an angry man.—Proverb
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Oppress'd by two weak evils, age and hunger.—SHAKESPEARE, As You Like It
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Famine is in thy cheeks.—SHAKESPEARE, Romeo and Juliet
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The awful phantom of the hungry poor.—HARRIET P. SPOFFORD, A Winter's Night
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The fields were fruitful, and starving men moved on the roads. The granaries were full and the children of the poor grew up rachitic, and the pustules of pellagra swelled on their sides. The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.—JOHN STEINBECK, The Grapes of Wrath
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Because of body's hunger are we born,
And by contriving hunger are we fed;
Because of hunger is our work well done,
As so are songs well sung, and things well said.
Desire and longing are the whips of God.—ANNA WICKHAM,Sehnsucht
