Hungry Man Quotes

• The hungry men were seen, followed by their valets, roaming the quais and guards' quarters; gleaning from their outside friends all the dinners they could find; for, according to Aramis, in prosperity one should sow meals right and left, in order to harvest some in adversity.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Adversity, Men, Order

  Alexandre Dumas (2006). “The Three Musketeers: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.87, Penguin

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• Hungry men have no respect for law, authority or human life.

  Marcus Garvey

  Men, Law, Hungry

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.13, Ravenio Books

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• A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Men, Food Banks, Poverty

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• It is nonsense to speak of 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is, rightly, more important that he eat than that he philosophize.

  W. H. Auden

  Happiness, Men, Important

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• To a hungry man, a piece of bread is the face of God.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Pieces, Bread

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• When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn't yet know that he needs your wisdom you keep it to yourself. Food only looks good to a hungry man.

  Orson Scott Card

  Men, Giving, Needs

  "Xenocide". Book by Orson Scott Card, 1991.

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• For a hungry man, green peas are more shiny than gleaming pearls.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Pearls, Green

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• To a hungry man, Christ is very lovely when He has a loaf of bread in His hand.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Hands, Lovely

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “Select Works”, p.181, Lulu Press, Inc

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• A hungry man is an angry one.

  Buchi Emecheta

  Inspirational, Men, Hungry

  Buchi Emecheta (1994). “The Joys of Motherhood”, p.135, Heinemann

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• Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Book, Men, Weapons

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• Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant.

  Scott Adams

  Life, Food, Men

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.448, Penguin

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• No hungry man who is also sober can be persuaded to use his last dollar for anything but food.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Men, Dollars, Use

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2015). “The New Industrial State”, p.6, Princeton University Press

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• Get out from that kitchen and rattle those pots and pans. Well, roll my breakfast cause I'm a hungry man.

  Big Joe Turner

  Men, Kitchen, Breakfast

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• If sometimes our poor people have had to die of starvation, it is not that God didn't care for them, but because you and I didn't give, were not an instrument of love in the hands of God, to give them that bread, to give them that clothing; because we did not recognize him, when once more Christ came in distressing disguise, in the hungry man, in the lonely man, in the homeless child, and seeking for shelter.

  Mother Teresa

  Lonely, Children, Men

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• You’re a goner, Donovan. When a hungry man spends more time lookin’ at his woman than eatin’ , he’s in trouble.

  Christine Feehan

  Men, Trouble, Hungry

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• I'm interested in genius the way a hungry man is interested in Philadelphia cheesesteaks. I want something. I want a piece of it.

  Eric Weiner

  Men, Want Something, Philadelphia

  "How your neighborhood coffee shop is brewing geniuses". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. January 21, 2016.

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• A hungry man is not a free man. Freedom from hunger is a fundamental right. Without this freedom, such fundamental right cannot exist.

  Silvio Berlusconi

  Men, Hunger, Hungry

  "Hunger battle on food summit menu". www.cnn.com. June 10, 2002.

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• They were the triumphant and insolent possessors; they had a hall, and a fire, and food and clothing and money, and so they might preach to hungry men, and the hungry men must be humble and listen. They were trying to save their souls- and who but a fool could fail to see that all that was the matter with their souls was that they had not managed to get a decent existence for their bodies?

  Upton Sinclair

  Humble, Men, Fire

  Upton Sinclair (2016). “The Jungle”, p.260, First Avenue Editions

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• Those who know their unworthiness seize grace as a hungry man seizes bread: the self-righteous resent grace.

  Randy Alcorn

  Men, Self, Grace

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• If our poor die of hunger, it is not because God does not care for them. Rather, it is because neither you nor I are generous enough. It is because we are not instruments of love in the hands of God. We do not recognize Christ when once again He appears to us in the hungry man, in the lonely woman, in the child who is looking for a place to get warm.

  Mother Teresa

  Lonely, Children, Men

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• Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.

  Washington Irving

  Funny, Men, Worry

  Washington Irving (1842). “A History of New-York: From the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty : Containing Among Many Surprising and Curious Matters, the Unutterable Ponderings of Walter the Doubter, the Disastrous Projects of William, the Testy, and the Chivalric Achievements of Peter, the Headstrong--the Three Dutch Governors of New Amsterdam : Being the Only Authentic History of the Times that Ever Hath Been Or Ever Will be Published”, p.157

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• The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.

  Lillian Hellman

  Men, World, Hunger

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• As refined fare serves a hungry man as well as and no better than coarser food, the more pretentious artist will not dream of inviting the hungry man to his meal.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dream, Men, Artist

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.281, Courier Corporation

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• [On her Freedom Farm Cooperative:] If you give a hungry man food, he will eat it. [But] if you give him land, he will grow his own food.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Men, Land, Giving

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• A hungry man is not a free man.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Freedom, Men, Compassion

  Speech, Kasson, Minn., 6 Sept. 1952

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