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| Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922. |
| Hunger |
| Hunger is sharper than the sword. Beaumont and Fletcher—The Honest Man’s Fortune. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 1. | 1 |
| Bone and Skin, two millers thin, Would starve us all, or near it; But be it known to Skin and Bone That Flesh and Blood can’t bear it. John Byrom—Epigram on Two Monopolists. | 2 |
| It is difficult to speak to the belly, because it has no ears. Cato the Censor, when the Romans demanded corn. See Plutarch’s Life of Cato the Censor. | 3 |
| La mejor salsa del mundo es la hambre. Hunger is the best sauce in the world. Cervantes—Don Quixote. | 4 |
| Enough is as good as a feast. George Chapman—Eastward Ho! Act III. Sc. 2. Written by Chapman, Jonson, Marston. | 5 |
| Socratem audio dicentem, cibi condimentum esse famem, potionis sitim. I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst. Cicero—De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum. II. 28. | 6 |
| Oliver Twist has asked for more. Dickens—Oliver Twist. Ch. II. | 7 |
| A fishmonger’s wife may feed of a conger; but a serving-man’s wife may starve for hunger. Health to the Gentlemanly Profession of Servingmen. (1598). | 8 |
| They that die by famine die by inches. Matthew Henry—Commentaries. Psalm LIX. | 9 |
| Græculus esuriens in cœlum, jusseris, ibit. Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go. Juvenal—Satires. III. 78. | 10 |
| Magister artis ingeniique largitor venter. The belly is the teacher of art and the bestower of genius. Persius—Satires. Prologue. X. | 11 |
| Famem fuisse suspicor matrem mihi. I suspect that hunger was my mother. Plautus—Stichus. Act II. 1. 1. | 12 |
| Obliged by hunger and request of friends. Pope—Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot. Prologue to the Satires. L. 44. | 13 |
| La ventre affamé n’point d’oreilles. Hungry bellies have no ears. Rabelais—Pantagruel. Bk. III. Ch. XV. | 14 |
| Nec rationem patitur, nec æquitate mitigatur nec ulla prece flectitur, populus esuriens. A hungry people listens not to reason, nor cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers. Seneca—De Brevitate Vitæ. XVIII. | 15 |
| They said they were an-hungry; sigh’d forth proverbs, That hunger broke stone walls, that dogs must eat, That meat was made for mouths, that the gods sent not Corn for the rich men only: with these shreds They vented their complainings. Coriolanus. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 209. | 16 |
| Our stomachs Will make what’s homely savoury. Cymbeline. Act III. Sc. 6. L. 32. | 17 |
| Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look. Julius Cæsar. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 194. | 18 |
| My more-having would be as a sauce To make me hunger more. Macbeth. Act IV. Sc. 3. L. 81. | 19 |
| Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave. Thomson—The Seasons. Winter. L. 393. | 20 |
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| Malesuada fames. Hunger that persuades to evil. Vergil—Æneid. VI. 276. | 21 |
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