BELLY QUOTES

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


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


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


A full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.

ST. CATHERINE OF SIENA

attributed, A Women's History of the Christian Church


A full belly makes a dull brain.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Poor Richard's Almanack, 1758


The stomach is the teacher of the arts and the dispenser of invention.

AULUS PERSIUS FLACCUS

prologue, Satires


Every investigation which is guided by the principles of nature fixes its ultimate aim upon gratifying the stomach.

ATHENAEUS

Deipnosophists


The eye is bigger than the belly.

GEORGE HERBERT

Jacula Prudentum


No clock is more regular than the Belly.

FRANÇOIS RABELAIS

Works


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

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

Beyond Good and Evil


When belly with bad pains doth swell,
It matters nought what else goes well.

SA'DI

The Gulistan


An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

Einstein on Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms


That master of arts, that dispenser of genius, the Belly.

PERSIUS

Satires


After a full belly all is poetry.

FRANK MCCOURT

'Tis: A Memoir


A full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

MARK TWAIN

The Prince and the Pauper


I said "doctor, ain't there nothin' I can take?"
I said "doctor, to relieve this belly ache"

HARRY NILSSON

Coconut