BELLY QUOTES II

quotations about the belly

It is a difficult matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.

MARCUS CATO

Plutarch's Lives


The belly robs the back.

JAMES HOWELL

Proverbs


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


To a haughty belly, kindness is hard to swallow and harder to digest.

ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Moses: Man of the Mountain


A belly full of gluttony will never study willingly.

THOMAS FULLER

Gnomologia


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

SAMUEL JOHNSON

The Life of Samuel Johnson


I say, whatever you maintain
Of Alma in the heart or brain,
The plainest man alive may tell ye
Her seat of empire is the belly.
From hence she sends out those supplies
Which make us either stout or wise;
The strength of every other member
Is founded on your belly-timber.

MATTHEW PRIOR

Alma


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 stomach is the Mother of all Evil.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Poor Richard's Almanack, 1744


A gross belly does not produce a refined mind.

ST. JEROME

attributed, The Home Book of Quotations


A bellyfull is a bellyfull.

FRANÇOIS RABELAIS

Works


My belly's as cold as if I had swallowed snowballs for pills.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

The Merry Wives of Windsor


What avails it us to have our bellies full of meat if it be not digested?

MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Essays


A full belly neither fights nor flies well.

GEORGE HERBERT

Jacula Prudentum


Promises don't fill the belly.

C.H. SPURGEON

Ploughman's Pictures


Your belly will never let your back be warm.

THOMAS FULLER

Gnomologia


May God look with hatred on the belly and its food; it is through them that chastity breaks down.

PALLADAS

attributed, Greek Anthology


The vilest of beasts is the belly.

GREEK PROVERB


The belly is not filled with fair words.

FRANÇOIS RABELAIS

Works