Belly Quotes

• A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

  Georges Bernanos

  Men, Needs, Poverty

  Georges Bernanos, Rémy Rougeau (2002). “The Diary of a Country Priest”, p.62, Da Capo Press

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• I enjoy the videos with the sound off, where you can look at the belly buttons and everything. Really some pretty girls, but I don't know about the music.

  Merle Haggard

  Girl, Buttons, Sound

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• I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.

  Johnny Depp

  Beer, Men, Lakes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The sage attends to the belly, and not to what he sees.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Sage

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• The royal hound's belly demands rubbing. Step lively, humans, neglect me not." ~Oberon

  Kevin Hearne

  Demand, Royal, Steps

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• When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.

  Saadi

  Body, Spirit, Empty

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• A full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Doe, Spirit, Chaste

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  I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly.

  Ty Cobb

  Inspirational Sports, Fire, Losing

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• It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.

  Cato the Elder

  Ears, Matter, Arguing

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

  Samuel Johnson

  Motivational, Fitness, Food

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 1, p. 467 (5 August 1763)

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• A full Belly brings forth every Evil.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Food, Evil

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.247, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• When I get older, I don't think I'll like to have wrinkles, or a big jelly belly. I cannot have it.

  Adriana Lima

  Thinking, Wrinkles, Jelly

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• The belly comes before the soul.

  George Orwell

  Soul, Human Nature

  George Orwell (2000). “Essays”, p.325, Penguin UK

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• People think we don't give a toss about the game, but when I walked out of Windsor Park that night I felt lower than a snake's belly. The reality is still there.

  Rio Ferdinand

  Night, Reality, Thinking

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• For me, a hearty "belly laugh" is one of the beautiful sounds in the world.

  Bennett Cerf

  Beautiful, Laughing, Sound

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• People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.

  Bernard de Mandeville

  Opportunity, People, Substance

  "The Fable of the Bees". Book by Bernard Mandeville. Remark C, p. 66, 1732.

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• Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Children, Intelligent, Intelligence

  Andrea Dworkin (1983). “Right Wing Women”, Perigee Trade

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• Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.

  Mao Zedong

  Glitter, Legs, Tongue

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• I couldn't pronounce Arnold Schwarzenegger, so I called him Balloon Belly.

  Joe Gold

  Balloons, Schwarzenegger

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• I don't keep my books around... they would embarrass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them in the belly, and have done with them.

  Ludwig Bemelmans

  Book, Writing, Done

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• I have come, Sire, to complain of one of your subjects who has been so audacious as to kick me in the belly.

  Marie Antoinette

  Pregnancy, Complaining, Birth

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• I don't have to come up with a ha-ha belly laugh every day, but drawings with warmth and love or ones that put a lump in the throat. That's more important to me than a laugh.

  Bil Keane

  Drawing, Laughing, Important

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• Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want to get something out of them, otherwise you'll come home to me with a full belly and an empty purse.

  Pietro Aretino

  Home, Men, Deceit

  Pietro Aretino (2003). “The School of Whoredom”, Hesperus Press

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• Do not mourn the dead with the belly.

  Homer

  Mourning, Mourn

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• I went to Ethiopia, and it dawned on me that you can tell a starving, malnourished person because they've got a bloated belly and a bald head. And I realized that if you come through any American airport and see businessmen running through with bloated bellies and bald heads, that's malnutrition, too.

  Dick Gregory

  Running, Airports, Romance

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